Fifteen years after China became a major economic power is an appropriate time to evaluate the effects that the new international role of this Asian country has had in Argentina. Hence, this paper examines how economic modernization in China and its new role in the international system shaped harmonic interests between both sides, which integrated Argentina into Chinese global production chain as a supplier of soybean and importer of manufactured goods. As a result, trade exchange and Chinese investments in Argentina grew, although it extended the North-South gap and consolidated the peripheral status of this South American country in the core-periphery model that prevails in the relationship. The axis of the model was based on the «soybean primarization» and now moves toward the "diversified agricultural primarization", in order to reverse the trade deficit that began in 2008.
Eduardo Daniel Oviedo, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Profesor titular de la Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Rosario, Argentina; investigador del Consejo Nacional de nvestigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina.
Oviedo, E. D. (2015). The rise of China and its effects on relations with Argentina. Estudios Internacionales, 47(180), 67–90. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2015.36432
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