Baxi Guanxi: perspective of the Brazil-China strategic partnership within the framework of South-South Cooperation in the beginning of XXI Century

• Grant number: 11/01419-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2011
• End date: October 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Cordeiro Pires
• Grantee: Aline Tedeschi da Cunha
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The suggested research´s scope is investigate the factors of strengthening relations between the new Global Traders China and Brazil under the egis of the term strategic partnership, taking account that both countries´ agendas give priority to relations of cooperation and integration within South-South. The aim is to understand the political strategies of Sino-Brazilian integration in the first decade of this century, and seek to seize their complementarities within the new standards from the international arena in restructuring towards a multipolar model. For such reviews will be used bibliography on the topic in question, primary sources of documentation, data collection from official sources to be used relevant to the circumstances analyzed, and press releases as factual basis of the international situation. In addition, it will be worth of analysis techniques juncture as a model for establishing causal links between events in the international arena and the politic-economic good points of the countries studied herein. Therefore, the aim of the research is to add consistency and to allow the understanding of Sino-Brazilian political and economic manipulation, with a view to achieving mutual goals pursued. (AU)