The soft power in China´s foreign policy: implications for Latin America

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the incorporation of soft power as an element of China's foreign policy for Latin America. We argue that China has soft power and has developed a strategy to project in the world from its foreign policy, based on its ancient culture, on international cooperation to developing countries and on the promotion its development model. Including China's soft power as an element of its foreign policy in the first half of the 2000s will have measurable effects on the intensification of its relations with Latin America in the second half of that decade.