Beijing’s Geostrategic Designs on Latin America
China’s growing Latin American footprint threatens to revive the noxious practices of clientelism and nepotism at the expense of the continent’s democratic and development gains, writes Christopher Sabatini, editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly:
[B]eyond the risk of resource dependence that China’s lopsided trade balance may bring to Latin America is the problem of corruption. As Ariel Armony argues in this issue of Americas Quarterly, Chinese practices of informal networking and deal making have a certain affinity with the Latin American traditions of clientelism and nepotism. In Latin America in the last two decades the rise of democratic governments and demands for ...
