Abstract
In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the development of a massive project of global connectivity infrastructure, known nowadays as the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路). Although it was originally presented as a trade project focused on Europe and Asia, through the years the Belt and Road Initiative has been unravelled as a much more complex project. Lately, it has been extended to more territories, one of them being Latin America and the Caribbean region. Chile has already signed cooperation agreements regarding the Initiative, and cooperation in trade and connectivity between Chile and China is already taking place. This article will discuss the changes and continuities that the cooperation between Chile and China, under the scope of the Initiative, provides for the sustainable development challenges Chile faces. The article concludes that the cooperation dimensions between both countries represent elements of both changes and continuities for the model of development of Chile.
Highlights
The United Nations (UN) defines sustainable development as the “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (1987, 3.- Sustainable Development)
Sustainable development requires a process of change in the type of economic growth experienced by both wealthy and poor countries, whilst poverty is considered no longer inevitable and these socio-economic features are correlated to environmental catastrophes (UN, 1987)
Chile has often been recognised as an example of the consolidation of democratic institutions, which has situated this country as a political example in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region
Summary
The United Nations (UN) defines sustainable development as the “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (1987, 3.- Sustainable Development). In order to achieve sustainable development, it is required to harmonise three interconnected dimensions: environmental protection, social inclusion, and economic growth (UN, n.d.). The cooperation between China and Chile, in the context of the BRI, can be addressed through two dimensions of cooperation: the deepening of trade between both countries and the participation of Chinese companies in the execution of a Chilean telecommunication network agenda. In this context, it is interesting to examine which changes and which continuities the current China-Chile cooperation represents to the development model of Chile.
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