China-Latin America and the Caribbean: A normative challenge for the European Union?

The increase in economic and trade exchanges between China and Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) goes along with the imposition of Chinese economic and political standards of international trade policy. This observation raises a question about the challenge posed by China’s normative influence to the European Union’s strategy exported to LAC. To answer this question, this paper analyses the normative power of China’s trade policy to LAC, to see if it carries a political and economic regional project comparable to and in competition with the model of governance and regional integration exported by the EU to the Latin American subcontinent.