Rubiolo, Maria Florencia2018-08-272018-08-272013Mural Internacional. Año IV – n° 1. Junho 2013https://repositorio.21.edu.ar/handle/ues21/14422Our aim in this paper is to analyze China’s and Southeast Asia presence in South America, and Argentina in particular. South America and China relations have shown a high level of trade complementarities. This phenomenon has occurred in parallel to a growing separation from the United States. China appeared as an alternative of international insertion for South America, mainly through the diversification of export destinies. But after a long decade, China’s approach to the South American region is reproducing asymmetrical bilateral relations, based on trade disparities rebuilding a centre-periphery scheme. In the case of Argentina, the links with SEA have unexplored potentialities for a more diversified international insertion that can be developed along with a South- South cooperation strategy, as a mean to reduce dependence from major trade partners. As we also argue in the article, this partner’s diversification has not been accompanied by a product diversification, instead we observe a higher degree of export concentration in the Argentinean side, reinforcing the agricultural-export model.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Stateshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/article