Abstract

ELLIS, Robert Evan. The Strategic Dimension of Chinese Activities in the Latin American Telecommunications Sector. Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.11, pp.121-140. ISSN 1900-6586.

The presence of Chinese companies in the telecommunications arguably has a doubly-strategic character. On one hand, the expansion and accumulation of technological prowess by Chinese companies in these sectors benefits the modernization and diversification of the Chinese economy, and its movement from competitiveness based on wages, to that based on the sophistication and capability of its products. In addition, however, capability by Chinese companies in these sectors particularly in Latin America also has strategic significance from the perspective of how such capabilities could be used by the Chinese state were the current "friendly" global competition between the PRC and the United States to devolve into something more confrontational.

Keywords : Strategic Character; Telecommunications Sector; Chinese Activities; Capability.

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