This exercise aims to conduct a tangential study over the rules contained in the new Chinese law on the Laws applicable to foreign-related civil relations and the different laws governing the matter in some of the countries that are part of the Latin American bloc, looking to see what aspects matches and which doesn't; all that with the purpose of better understand how it is regulating private international law in these two parts of the world and what are the proximity or distance existing between them. © 2018 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. All rights reserved.