Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: Pandemic Diplomacy in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Abstract

Empirical analysis of China’s health diplomacy toward Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic suggests that even though the region remains peripheral among China’s foreign priorities its health diplomacy functions as a diffusion tool for increasing its soft power in the region, particularly against the background of the evolving China–United States rivalry. The source and development of Chinese soft power in the Global South should be understood as the diffusion effect of the combination and interdependence of its material hard power and its ideational soft power. Un análisis empírico de la diplomacia sanitaria de China hacia América Latina y el Caribe en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 sugiere que, aunque la región sigue ocupando un lugar periférico entre las prioridades exteriores de China, su diplomacia sanitaria funciona como una herramienta de difusión para aumentar su poder blando en la región, particularmente en el contexto de la rivalidad entre China y Estados Unidos. La fuente y el desarrollo del poder blando chino en el Sur Global deben entenderse como el efecto disperso de la combinación e interdependencia de su poder duro material y su poder blando ideacional.

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Xing, L., Vadell, J., & Rubiolo, F. (2023). Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: Pandemic Diplomacy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin American Perspectives, 50(4), 193–209. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X231187895

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