Are Peruvians Enticed by the “China Model”? Chinese Investment and Public Opinion in Peru

Ratigan, Kerry

doi:10.1007/s12116-021-09321-0

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“…For some, these differences amount to a new China model of development assistance that may be more attractive to Global South countries than the Western model (Power & Mohan, 2010; Tan‐Mullins et al ., 2010; Woods, 2008). Indeed, many country leaders explicitly look to China as a model of development and poverty reduction, despite the Chinese government's traditional insistence that every country's development pathway is unique (Hodzi & Åberg, 2020; Ratigan, 2021).…”

Section: Cooperation and The China Model Of Developmentmentioning

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The cooperation‐infrastructure nexus: Translating the ‘China Model’ into Laos

Harlan,

2024

Singap J Trop Geogr

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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is frequently described as a ‘hard’ infrastructure programme of roads, railways, and ports. But a variety of ‘soft’ development cooperation activities—including trainings, dialogues, research, and development projects—have also been established under the banner of the BRI. We examine how this ‘soft’ cooperation works hand‐in‐hand with ‘hard’ infrastructure in what we call the cooperation‐infrastructure nexus. This nexus works in two parallel ways: cooperation activities establish discursive frames of Chinese development as a model to follow, while also creating channels of exchange and support that validate and facilitate infrastructure investments. These investments, in turn, legitimize and often provide direct channels for further cooperation. To make this argument, we present empirical research conducted in China and Laos in two sectors: hydropower and rubber. Both expanded rapidly in China over the past three decades and are held up as models to follow; both are also the basis for cooperation and infrastructure interventions across Southeast Asia. We show that Chinese rubber and hydropower cooperation activities serve both to frame existing projects positively and facilitate future investments in those sectors in Laos. The infrastructure established on the ground, however, rarely resembles the ‘China model’ upon which it is discursively based. Instead, we find that important obstacles and contradictions arise in translating China's domestic achievements into other country contexts. Our findings show the need to consider cooperation as intertwined with infrastructure, while acknowledging the disconnect between discourses of a China model and experiences on the ground.

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Section: Cooperation and The China Model Of Developmentmentioning

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The cooperation‐infrastructure nexus: Translating the ‘China Model’ into Laos

Harlan,

2024

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…In addition, the geopolitical perspective plays a vital role in Chinese FDI in the region, with many unfavorable opinions. For instance, the Chinese preference for mine acquisition has led to the rejection of the BRI in many countries, which hinders local governments' efforts to attract investments (Ratigan, 2021).…”

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Entry modes for Chinese enterprises in Latin America

Valderrey

Trigos

Queiroz

2023

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been an important project for President Xi Jinping on foreign soil. The initiative gained momentum through colossal investments in Eurasia and Africa, mainly through infrastructure projects, backed by generous funding from Chinese financial institutions. A few years later, Latin America emerged as a new target for geographically extending the BRI. The region provides sufficient motivation to entice Chinese investors; it is well endowed with natural resources, offers a market of approximately 670 million people, and has many unmet needs. In addition, recent geopolitical reasons such as the ongoing trade war between the United States and China may give Chinese enterprises indirect access to the world's largest consumer market. We present a brief overview of the relationship between China and Latin America, focusing on the mode of entry of Asian companies into these territories. We analyze the primary entry mode of Chinese enterprises and whether they do so through Greenfield Investment (GI) or Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A). For this purpose, we use data from the China Global Investment Tracker. Thus, we intend to provide a complete picture of how public and private Chinese organizations are gaining a foothold in Latin America, and present its managerial implications.

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“…Bräutigam et al 2022). For example, Peruvians often view both private and stateowned Chinese mining companies operating in their country as being tied to China's government regardless of a company's actual identity (Ratigan 2021).…”

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Chinese Global Infrastructure

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2023

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Infrastructure is at the heart of China's presence in global development and is also central to larger debates about Chinese influence. This Element provides a comprehensive account of major, Chinese government-financed infrastructure projects in the Global South since 1949. Using new datasets, it demonstrates that Chinese global infrastructure is distinct in terms of its historical tenacity and massive contemporary scope. But this does not imply that contemporary Chinese global infrastructure or the Belt and Road Initiative should be studied in a vacuum. Historical and comparative perspectives show that contemporary projects often emerge based on similar political logics to those that shaped infrastructure investment in earlier periods of Chinese history and other international contexts. The Element then examines how infrastructure projects have created both purposeful and unintended sources of influence by serving as valuable but risky political capital for host country governments as well as the Chinese government.

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Are Peruvians Enticed by the “China Model”? Chinese Investment and Public Opinion in Peru

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

The cooperation‐infrastructure nexus: Translating the ‘China Model’ into Laos

The cooperation‐infrastructure nexus: Translating the ‘China Model’ into Laos

Entry modes for Chinese enterprises in Latin America

Chinese Global Infrastructure

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