Abstract

HARO NAVEJAS, Francisco Javier. Does Illusion Free Ride on the Chinese Economy? A Pattern of Dependency in the CACZ. Pap.polit. [online]. 2013, vol.18, n.2, pp.651-676. ISSN 0122-4409.

In this paper, the author studies Chinese interactions with four countries of the Central American and the Caribbean Zone (CACZ): Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Despite the fact of having dissimilar type of governments and different levels of understanding with Beijing, all of them have a growing bilateral trade deficit relation and expect more than Beijing is willing to give. Selected countries may have ideological perceptions on that country, but not common ideologies. According to this hypothesis, what really triggers the bilateral relation is a concurrence of interests. The Chinese government is looking for markets, raw materials and defeating Taiwan in the diplomatic field. The CACZ countries pursue an illusion: as free riders they assume that their problems will be solved by Chinese policies. Free riding, the core concept of this paper, leads them to economic dependence rather than to interdependence.

Keywords : China; Central America and the Caribbean; bilateral relations; trade; free rider; Caribbean Region; China; foreign economic relations; foreign economic relations; trade negotiations; trade policy; economic integration.

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