With agribusiness in countries such as Country Email List Brazil, Argentina or Uruguay, the large regional contractors who enrich themselves with works of large-scale infrastructure and even sectors linked to financial and real estate speculation Country Email List associated with extractive ventures, as is the case in the large lithium water mining industry. The linear association of these interests as belonging to a country and necessary for "development" is problematic. Thus, the arrival of Country Email List foreign direct investment tends to be presented as an indisputable solution, assuming it as the basis for overcoming the so-called «external restriction» of the economies.
Through the exacerbation of extractive Country Email List projects, which, according to this perspective, would result in mitigating employment and poverty problems. This type of analysis promotes an epistemic blindness that traffics the interests of the ruling Country Email List classes as "popular." The key challenge for the China-Celac Forum to become a space that genuinely fights for a fair energy transition or against poverty, is that it be constituted as a more horizontal space, and even Country Email List with more direct participation of the Latin American popular sectors. on the International Relations agenda that their governments bring to the forum.
At the moment, not only does this Country Email List not seem to happen, but we could ask ourselves if China is being invited by CELAC as a body to discuss horizontally on global issues, or rather the Forum represents a unilateral expression of the People's Republic's vision of Country Email List China on the region, almost as a "natural extension" of China's white papers to Latin America. More than half a century after the creation of the Non-Aligned Movement, the world has changed dramatically. However, a conceptual renewal of the idea of "non-alignment" may be useful for Country Email List Latin America in this new stage characterized by the dispute between the United States and China.