ABSTRACT
This commentary reflects on rising China and its impact in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region from an Amsterdam School (AS) perspective. The two key AS concepts used in our discussion of China below are 'contender states' and 'comprehensive concepts of control' (CCCs). Neoliberalism is a complex phenomenon and its genesis in a hegemonic CCC has two interlinked aspects: first, it is a transnational process that involves local, national, macroregional and global forms of spatialization and, second, it is a class project. The AC is a contemporary dynamic process of change in the international political economy that involves a mutation of the neoliberal hegemonic structure of the current hierarchical capitalist order. This mutation is anchored in China's projection of political power and its economic rise as a part of the core of the capitalist system.
