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China’s “peaceful” rise: moral in foreign policy towards Latin America

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Vol. 52 No. 196 (2020): May-August
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2020.58330

Abstract

The article analyzes the recurring use of moral rhetoric in China’s foreign policy toward Latin America of the Hu Jintao’s and Xi Jinping’s governments with the aim to ensure a “peaceful” environment to achieve the goal of national rejuvenation by 2049. This investigation argues that China draws on moral values to deter the fears that China’s global rise causes in the West. Firstly examining the relation between moral and foreign policy through of the theoretical problematization, and secondly, how moral in foreign policy will be implemented in China’s economic foreign policy and multilateral policy, with particular emphasis in CELAC and Belt and Road Initiative. The work concludes that there is a gap and a persistent tension between the China’s official moral discourse with the responsibility to protect the rights of local communities and the non-recognition of environmental problems in Latin American territories of fragile states where their economic projects are running actively.

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China, Latin America, Xi Jinping, Moral, Foreign Policy

Author Biography

Tonatiuh Fierro De Jesús, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Profesor e investigador visitante del Instituto Internacional de Estudios Políticos Avanzados, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (IIEPA-IMA) de la Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero. Doctorando en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Maestro en Estudios de Asia y África, con especialidad en China, por El Colegio de México, y licenciado en Relaciones Internacionales por la UNAM.

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Fierro De Jesús, T. (2020). China’s “peaceful” rise: moral in foreign policy towards Latin America. Estudios Internacionales, 52(196), 9–54. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2020.58330
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