PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND ITS NEW GEOSTRATEGIC POSITIONING: LATIN AMERICA IN THE SIGHT OF THE DRAGON

Abstract

It doesn’t matter if we look at the People ́s Republic of China (PRC), according to the categories of Raul Bernal Meza, as a business partner of risk or not; as a model of economic and social development; or as a possible support in the construction of a new multipolar world order and non-hegemonic, what is clear is that the “peaceful rise” of the PRC has involved new equations of power, security and a realignment of the balance of the world, bearing in mind all the international actors who adjust their agendas to this new reality, including Latin America.

This article looks at the implication of the growing presence (viralization) of a China that cannot developed today if is isolated from the rest of the world (she needs stability, markets, raw materials and energy to avoid falling in the trap of the middle class income country), neither the world can enjoy prosperity and stability without the PRC despite the fact that the strength of US power remains a priority factor. In this context, the article argues the great challenge that the region has to search as a whole, a relationship of a “egalitarian” cooperation and counterweights that surpasses today’s “economic mirage in order to avoid the vulnerabilities and threats of a strategic dependence, of a new colonization and / or a satellization in a context of global dispute.