1st Edition
China-Latin America and the Caribbean Assessment and Outlook
Part 1: 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 America’s current socioeconomic relationship with China: Conditions and challenges. The case for China’s overseas foreign direct investment in Latin America
Enrique Dussel Peters
3. The People’s Republic of China’s South–South Relations with the Mercosur countries: Regionalism at issue facing the win–win principle
Lincoln Bizzozero Revelez
4. Is China’s economic expansion responsible for pushing Latin America back in the periphery of the World Economy?
Jean-Christophe Defraigne, David Villalobos
5. China as a competitor of the European Union in Latin America
Detlef Nolte
Part 2: CASE STUDIES: CHINA-SOUTH AMERICA
6. Brazilian Foreign Policy to China in the 21st Century (2003-2019): Trends, Transitions and Implications
Danielly Ramos Becard, Antônio Carlos Lessa
7. China-Argentina: A new core-periphery relationship
Raúl 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 the new China’s Economic Paradigm
Gabriel Arrieta
Part 3: 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 (2014–2019): A new Latin-American pivot of the Silk Road or a ‘tour de valse’?
Thierry Kellner, Sophie Wintgens
13. Geopolitics in Central America: China and El Salvador in the 21st Century
Álvaro Mendez
14. The intensification of China’s presence in the insular Caribbean: The case of Cuba
Eric Dubesset
Biography
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 Université 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 Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and at the Centre d’études 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 ULiège (CEFIR) research centres.
