, China symbolically affords the recipient status in a way that Northern aid does not. The real existing power asymmetries … between China and Africa do not per se translate into unlimited influence as China can never be sure of reciprocity and is …

Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China's impact … on Latin America's trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China's growth in the last years implied a growing …; and iii) a positive relationship between imports from China and exports to third markets was only found for the Southern …