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The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America
China’s rise as a global power corresponded with a diminution of Taiwanese diplomacy, which has left Central America as the last region to host a continuous bloc of countries that recognize the ROC. In this article, we argue that China’s success in gaining diplomatic recognition from Taiwan’s former...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32982139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09682-8 |
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author | Portada, Robert A. Lem, Steve B. Paudel, Uttam |
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description | China’s rise as a global power corresponded with a diminution of Taiwanese diplomacy, which has left Central America as the last region to host a continuous bloc of countries that recognize the ROC. In this article, we argue that China’s success in gaining diplomatic recognition from Taiwan’s former allies has largely resulted from China's economic policy, specifically its promises of large-scale infrastructure projects and the integration of Central American economies with Chinese markets. However, there are limits to how far China has advanced in gaining full recognition from the region. The competing political and economic interests of China, Taiwan, the United States, and the Central American countries themselves, continue to influence patterns of diplomatic switching. More specifically, we argue that the threat of punitive measures from the United States combined with a turn in Taiwanese diplomacy toward assistance efforts to combat Covid-19 may deter future switching in the short to medium-term. Our analysis offers case studies of four Central American countries (Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Nicaragua) to illustrate the multi-year processes by which China’s economic strategy leads to diplomatic switching and examine the paths ahead for the remaining holdouts facing the prospect of economic and political penalties by the United States. |
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spelling | pubmed-75055392020-09-23 The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America Portada, Robert A. Lem, Steve B. Paudel, Uttam J Chin Polit Sci Research Article China’s rise as a global power corresponded with a diminution of Taiwanese diplomacy, which has left Central America as the last region to host a continuous bloc of countries that recognize the ROC. In this article, we argue that China’s success in gaining diplomatic recognition from Taiwan’s former allies has largely resulted from China's economic policy, specifically its promises of large-scale infrastructure projects and the integration of Central American economies with Chinese markets. However, there are limits to how far China has advanced in gaining full recognition from the region. The competing political and economic interests of China, Taiwan, the United States, and the Central American countries themselves, continue to influence patterns of diplomatic switching. More specifically, we argue that the threat of punitive measures from the United States combined with a turn in Taiwanese diplomacy toward assistance efforts to combat Covid-19 may deter future switching in the short to medium-term. Our analysis offers case studies of four Central American countries (Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Nicaragua) to illustrate the multi-year processes by which China’s economic strategy leads to diplomatic switching and examine the paths ahead for the remaining holdouts facing the prospect of economic and political penalties by the United States. Springer Netherlands 2020-09-21 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7505539/ /pubmed/32982139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09682-8 Text en © Journal of Chinese Political Science/Association of Chinese Political Studies 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Portada, Robert A. Lem, Steve B. Paudel, Uttam The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America |
title | The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America |
title_full | The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America |
title_fullStr | The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America |
title_full_unstemmed | The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America |
title_short | The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America |
title_sort | final frontier: china, taiwan, and the united states in strategic competition for central america |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32982139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09682-8 |
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