On December 4, 2026, Rio de Janeiro will host the second day of the international workshop “China and Latin America: Investment, Disputes and Law”, bringing together research presentations and discussions on China’s evolving engagement with Latin America. The event will take place in person, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. BRT, at the Auditorium of the PUC-Rio Institute of Law, on the sixth floor of the Frings Building in Gávea. The entire program will be conducted in English, with no simultaneous interpretation available. The workshop is organized by the University of Oxford, PUC-Rio, the NYU U.S.-Asia Law Institute, Observa China and Mapping Global China.

09:00–09:20 | Day 1 Synthesis

Rapporteurs (to be confirmed): Parsifal D'Sola Alvarado; Francisco Urdínez

09:20–10:35 | Research Session I: Investment and political economy

Moderator: Carlos Frederico Coelho

Alexandre Coelho – China's Geoeconomic Strategy and Renminbi Internationalization: CIPS, Swap Lines, and Brazil–China Monetary Relations

Cintia Quiliconi – Chinese Mining and the Electricity Nexus in Ecuador

Francisco Urdínez – Segmented Leadership: Chinese and American Capital in South America's Renewable Energy Transition

Discussants: Tulio Cariello; Larissa Wachholz

10:35–10:50 | Coffee break

10:50–12:05 | Research Session II: Law, regulation and digital infrastructure

Moderator: Katherine Wilhelm

Fabio Morosini – AI as Legal Infrastructure: Brazil as a Site of US–China Competition

Ignacio Tornero – Foreign-Investment Screening Mechanisms for Latin America

Pedro Vormittag – Comparing Brazilian and Chinese Cyber Policies

Discussants: Maria Haro Sly; Marcos Ludwig

12:05–13:05 | Lunch

13:05–14:20 | Research Session III: Energy transition, environment and development

Moderator: Paulo Esteves

Gustavo Alejandro Cardozo (online) – Green Hydrogen in the Southern Cone: Chinese Capital, Regulatory Gaps and Competing Standards

Parsifal D'Sola Alvarado – China's Role in South America's Energy Transition

Juliana González Jáuregui – Chinese FDI, Value Chains and the Just Energy Transition in Argentina

Maia Seeger – Chinese Investment, Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence in Chile

Discussants: Cynthia Sanborn; Rafael Valdez (online)

14:20–15:35 | Research Session IV: Security, geopolitics and regional agency

Moderator: Igor Patrick

Mariano Del Pópolo – Mapping China's Military-Industrial Complex in Latin America

Paulo Filho – China's Grand Strategy in Latin America

Alonso Illueca – China's Grand Port Strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Diego Telias – Small-State Foreign Policy toward China across Africa and Latin America

Discussant: Carlos Frederico Coelho

15:35–15:50 | Coffee break

15:50–16:35 | Mapping Global China Session: Building the China–Latin America Research Cluster

Chair: Jennifer Rudolph

Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph – Mapping Global China in Latin America

16:35–17:20 | Final Roundtable and Closing

Chair: Carlos Frederico Coelho

Closing remarks: Maria Adele Carrai; Paulo Esteves; Carolina Souza; Pedro Vormittag; Katherine Wilhelm