Since 1978, with the turning point of the Opening and Reform, China has been outlining a strategy to integrate its economy into the world market. This process was intensified with China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001; it was strengthened in 2023 with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and is currently reaching a new peak, in the second decade of the 21st century, with the global initiatives of President Xi Jinping. The emergence of China's prominence in the world meant that, in their development policies, emerging countries could place China with its corresponding strategic weight in their trade, investment and cooperation policies. With the gravitation of the world economy shifting from the dominant Atlantic to the Pacific axis, a new shift is taking place in international relations. Today, we are probably at a turning point of the transitional phase towards the emergence of Asia as the salient region of world trade and China as a leading world power. In this context, China has become one of the most important strategic partners of most Latin American countries since the beginning of the 21st century. Thus, for example, happened in Costa Rica, where China was already its second largest trading partner even before it established diplomatic relations in 2007. In Latin America, as in many other countries around the world, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has come to complement and improve a system of trade-enhancing relations. Other initiatives such as the Global Civilization Initiative, on the other hand, promote cultural and academic exchange between China and Latin America. For countries such as ours, separated by an ocean, trade and investment, cooperation under schemes such as the BRI and the Global Initiatives open the possibility of greater coordination in infrastructure, cultural exchanges, shared research, interwoven supplies of value chains, all under the same aspiration of peaceful, equitable and sustainable human development.