The international implications of the Chinese model of development in the Global South: Asian Consensus as a network power

As implicações internacionais do modelo chinês de desenvolvimento do Sul Global: Consenso Asiático como uma rede em potencial

Abstract

This paper analyzes People's Republic of China (PRC) economic and political ascendance in the 21^st century focusing on the evolution of the sui generis economic development model and its significances of the evolution of relationship between China and the developing countries in the peripheral "Global South." The objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between China and the Global South (Africa and South America) in the 21^st century, characterized as a new Center-periphery global network power based on trade and investment that we call as "Asian Consensus."

Africa; China; Latin America; neoliberalism; network power