The Center for Studies and Exchange between Latin America and the Caribbean and China of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) was created as a strategic initiative to strengthen academic, scientific, cultural, and institutional ties between the two regions, from a critical, pluralistic, transformative perspective situated in the Global South. It simultaneously constitutes an academic program and a platform for institutional cooperation. From the Global South, it connects universities, intellectual networks, and key social and political actors in research, multilingual publications, academic training, and communication. With mechanisms for transparency and sustainability, it promotes regional and global studies that highlight common challenges and foster more equitable, inclusive, and transformative international cooperation. In short, it is also an alliance for transformation.

Its central purpose is to improve mutual understanding, deepen academic dialogue, and promote the co-creation of knowledge among universities, research centers, intellectual networks, and key social and political actors committed to the transformation of our societies.

It is proposed as a space for the production of thought and action from the Global South that feeds initiatives - such as the BRICS - that contribute to the reconfiguration of multilateralism for the construction of a fairer and more peaceful world.

This center aims to:

• Promote joint research projects, multilingual publications and shared publishing spaces.
• To promote academic exchange and the training of young researchers through scholarships, seminars and virtual or face-to-face courses.
• Consolidate an institutional cooperation platform with monitoring, transparency and sustainability mechanisms.
• Promote regional studies on China, Latin America and the Caribbean that give visibility to the voices of the Global South and their common challenges.
• To articulate diverse knowledge around topics such as South-South cooperation, sustainable development, ecological modernization, education, local and global governance, epistemic justice and technological sovereignty, geopolitics and poverty reduction, among other priority issues.

With the active participation of academics, students, and institutional representatives from both regions, the program is envisioned as a space for meeting, learning, and collective construction, aimed at strengthening a more equitable, supportive, inclusive, and transformative international cooperation.