In the ongoing technological revolution, the global economy is rapidly digitalizing, value chains are being reconfigured, and global tensions and environmental challenges are intensifying. In such a context, countries must address strategies that respond to their own needs and global challenges, balancing development with sustainability, innovation with regulation, and sovereignty with international cooperation. Thus, the intersection between innovation, regulation and sustainable development has become a central axis to face contemporary challenges.

The growing relations between Latin America and China present opportunities and challenges to move in this direction. Latin America has large endowments of natural resources necessary for sustainable development but needs to increase local capacities for technological development. Along with the challenges of the productive structure, one of the obstacles in this direction is the lack of planning that considers the region's own capacities and needs in a cooperation agenda with other actors. On the other hand, in recent decades China has achieved rapid economic and social development, while at the same time competing for global leadership in the research and development of key technologies for digital transformation and energy transition and establishing a solid international cooperation strategy. In this way, Latin America and China, with their different trajectories and levels of development, are in a strategic position to share knowledge and cooperation models that promote innovation, sustainable development and economic growth.

Secretary of International Affairs, University of Buenos Aires.