E-COMMERCE CONNECTING CHINA AND LATIN AMERICA VIA DIGITAL SILK-ROAD

Abstract

Latin America is the natural extension of the “Maritime Silk Road” and its exchanges and cooperation with China have become increasingly frequent in recent years. Under the current globale conomic backdrop, e-commerce as an emerging industry is gaining momentum and playing a bigger role in international cooperation. The Belt and Road top-level design features policy coordination, unimpededtrade, facilities connectivity and people-to-people bond respectively, which play a guiding role in China-LAC cooperation. Coupled with the status quo, the paper will mainly focus on these four sections so as to better analyze the China-LAC cooperation in Silk-Road E-commerce. This paper intends to analyze China-LAC e-commerce cooperation in fields of policy, trade, facilities, and people-to-people contact and study in which areas still remain room for bilateral cooperation and how can both sides better achieve win-win results under the framework of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”.

Keywords

• silk-road e-commerce
• china-lac cooperation
• policy coordination
• unimpeded trade
• facilities connectivity
• people-to-people bond
• comercio electrónico de la ruta de la seda
• cooperación entre china y alc
• coordinación de políticas
• comercio sin trabas
• conectividad de instalaciones
• vínculo entre personas