Asia-Latin America Interactions from a Subnational Perspective

Abstract

This piece is devoted to the emerging issues resulting from the growing incidence of interactions between Asia and Latin America at a subnational level. This growth is manifested by an increasing number of mutual visits by members of regional and local governments in Asia and Latin America, often accompanied by the signing of formal agreements. This piece is also about the increase in flows of international development cooperation originating in Asia that find their way into Latin American regions and provinces with no need for the central government’s protagonist role. International migration, informal commerce, transnational crime and cultural interactions are just some of the other aspects Asia-Latin America relations that can be analyzed from a subnational perspective