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- Title
Does Illusion Free Ride on the Chinese Economy? A Pattern of Dependency in the CACZ.
- Authors
Haro Navejas, Francisco Javier
- Abstract
In this paper, the author studies Chinese interactions with four countries of the Central American and the Caribbean Zone (CACZ): Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Despite the fact of having dissimilar type of governments and different levels of understanding with Beijing, all of them have a growing bilateral trade deficit relation and expect more than Beijing is willing to give. Selected countries may have ideological perceptions on that country, but not common ideologies. According to this hypothesis, what really triggers the bilateral relation is a concurrence of interests. The Chinese government is looking for markets, raw materials and defeating Taiwan in the diplomatic field. The CACZ countries pursue an illusion: as free riders they assume that their problems will be solved by Chinese policies. Free riding, the core concept of this paper, leads them to economic dependence rather than to interdependence.
- Subjects
CARIBBEAN; CHINA; CHINESE economic policy; ECONOMIC conditions in China; DEPENDENCY theory (International relations); INTERNATIONAL relations; INTERNATIONAL trade
- Publication
Papel Político, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 2, p651
- ISSN
0122-4409
- Publication type
Article