Latin America and the Asian Giants: Evolving Ties with China and India

by Riordan Roett Johns Hopkins University-SAIS (Editor), Guadalupe Paz (Editor)

Overview

How an evolving relationship with China and India is changing Latin America's political and economic dynamics.

In the years since China has adopted a "going global" strategy to promote its overseas investment, expand export markets, and gain much-needed access to natural resources abroad, Sino–Latin American relations have both deepened and broadened at an unexpectedly rapid pace. The main driver behind this sea change in bilateral relations has been economic complementarity, with resource-rich countries in Latin America exporting primary goods to the Asian giants' growing market and China exporting manufactured goods back into the region. In recent years, Sino–Latin American relations have matured considerably, becoming far more nuanced and multifaceted than ever before.

India is a relatively new player in the region, but has slowly strengthened its ties. As one of Asia's largest markets, it offers interesting parallels to the Chinese case. Will Indo–Latin American ties follow a similar path? The main areas of growth include trade and investment, mining, energy, information technology, motor vehicle production, and pharmaceuticals. To what extent these changing dynamics will redefine Latin America's relations with India is a question of increasing relevance for policymakers.

This volume offers a review of key cross-regional trends and critical policy issues involving the changing relationship between these two Asian giants and Latin America. Selected country case studies—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico—provide a more in-depth analysisof the implications of China's and India's evolving interaction with the region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815726975
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/27/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Riordan Roett is a professor and director of the Latin American Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.Guadalupe Paz is an assistant research professor and the associate director of the Latin American Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

1 Introduction: Assessing Latin America's Relations with the Asian Giants Guadalupe Paz 1

Part I The Expanding Role of China and India in Latin America

2 Latin America Looks to Asia: Integration, Cooperation, and Geopolitical Goals Riordan Roett 21

3 Recasting South-South Links: Indo-Latin American Relations Jorge Hejne Hari Seshasayee 37

4 Regional Policy Perspectives Sino-Latin American Relations from a Chinese Perspective Sun Hongbo 61

China Goes Geopolitical in Its Strategic Partnership with Latin America Xiang Lanxin 64

A Latin American Perspective on China's Growing Presence in the Region Jorge Guajardo 68

Latin America's China Decade: Managing Benefits and Risks Kevin P. Gallagher Rebecca Ray 74

Recalibrating Indo-Latin American Policy Deepak Bhojwani 76

India's Interaction with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico Rengaraj Viswanathan 80

Seeking a Better Deal for Latin America: New Opportunities or More of the Same? Anthony Boadle 82

Part II Critical Policy Issues for Latin America, China, and India

5 Latin America's Changing Energy Landscape: Assessing the Implications of New Asian Players Francisco E. González 91

6 Latin America on the Front Line of Food Security? Mariano Turzi 117

7 Latin American Trade with India and China: The Region Needs a "Business Plan" Robert Devlin Theodore Kahn 133

8 Migration in a Mobile Age: Perspectives from China, India, and the Americas Jacqueline Mazza 183

9 The Security Dimension of Chinese and Indian Engagement in the Americas R. Evan Ellis 205

Part III Case Studies: The Interaction of China and India With Key Actors in Latin America

10 Chile: A Bridge to Asia? Alicia Frohmann Manfred Wilhelmy 227

11 Mexico's Relationship with China and India: Recent Developments Enrique Dussel Peters 251

12 Argentina and Brazil: Toward an Atlantic Strategy? Henrique Altemani De Oliveira 267

Part IV Conclusions

13 Future Scenarios for Latin America's Relations with China and India Mauricio Mesquita Moreira Theodore Kahn 295

About the Authors 311

Index 315

Editorial Reviews

The analysis of the links between Latin America and China and India is an interesting topic for experts in the field of economics, politics and international relations and this book is a great contribution with which to deepen their study.—Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies

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