China-Latin America and the Caribbean
This book assesses the political, economic and geopolitical dynamics that Chinas presence has initiated throughout Latin America and the Caribbean between 2008 and 2020.
Written by experts across three continents, contributions to this edited volume explore the bilateral relations that China has developed with almost all Latin American and Caribbean countries, charting both the benefits they have brought and the problems that these relations have created for local actors. The book analyses the emergence of new forms of dependence, considers issues such as the existence of a deindustrialization phenomenon throughout Latin America and ultimately questions whether China and the United States are engaged in a zero-sum game in the region. It also investigates challenges that the densification of the web of Chinas relations and exchanges with Latin America and the Caribbean countries pose, not only to the United States and European countries, as traditional partners of these states, but also to Latin American regionalism.
Including an extensive set of case studies and local-, regional- and global-level analysis, China-Latin America and the Caribbean provides an empirically rich resource for students and scholars of Chinese foreign and economic policy, Latin America, the Caribbean and wider geopolitics.
Thierry Kellner is Doctor in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is associated with several ULB research centres (REPI, EASt, OMAM, CECID, IEE) and the Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security (GRIP, Brussels).
Sophie Wintgens (PhD) is Lecturer at the Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and at the Centre dtudes sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She is also associated with several ULB (CEVIPOL, AmericaS) and ULige (CEFIR) research centres.
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China-Latin America and the Caribbean
Assessment and Outlook
Edited by Thierry Kellner and Sophie Wintgens
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Names: Kellner, Thierry, editor. | Wintgens, Sophie, editor.
Title: China-Latin America and the Caribbean : assessment and outlook /
edited by Thierry Kellner and Sophie Wintgens.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor &
Francis, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2020052751 | ISBN 9780367458287 (hardback) |
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Subjects: LCSH: ChinaForeign relationsLatin America. | Latin
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Contents
ELENA AOUN, THIERRY KELLNER AND SOPHIE WINTGENS
PART I
China-Latin American and the Caribbean relationships: What is at stake?
1 The opportunities and challenges of the BRI in Latin America: A view from China
LIU JIANHUA
2 Latin Americas current socioeconomic relationship with China: Conditions and challenges. The case for Chinas overseas foreign direct investment in Latin America
ENRIQUE DUSSEL PETERS
3 The Peoples Republic of Chinas South-South relations with the Mercosur countries: Regionalism at issue facing the win-win principle
LINCOLN BIZZOZERO REVELEZ
4 Is Chinas economic expansion responsible for pushing Latin America back in the periphery of the world economy?
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE DEFRAIGNE AND DAVID VILLALOBOS
5 China as a competitor of the European Union in Latin America
DETLEF NOLTE
PART II
Case studies: China-South America
6 Brazilian foreign policy to China in the 21st century (20032019): Trends, transitions and implications
DANIELLY RAMOS BECARD AND ANTNIO CARLOS LESSA
7 China-Argentina: A new core-periphery relationship
RAL BERNAL-MEZA
8 The triangular relation between China, the United States and Venezuela
ANA SOLIZ DE STANGE
9 Chinese trade and investments in Bolivia during Evo Morales administrations: South-South or dependency relations?
VALERIA MARINA VALLE
10 The China-Peru relationship under Chinas new economic paradigm
GABRIEL ARRIETA
PART III
Case studies: China-Central America and the Caribbean
11 China-Central American relationship in the context of tensions between China, Russia and the United States
CARLOS MURILLO ZAMORA
12 The rise of China in Panama under Varela (20142019): A new LatinAmerican pivot of the Silk Road or a diplomatic tour de valse?
THIERRY KELLNER AND SOPHIE WINTGENS
13 Geopolitics in Central America: China and El Salvador in the 21st century
LVARO MNDEZ
14 The intensification of Chinas presence in the insular Caribbean: The case of Cuba
ERIC DUBESSET
