The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America Amar Paul
This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the…
Specifikacia The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America Amar Paul
This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a New Health Silk Road agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African Belt and Road Initiative to a series of mine, port, energy, infrastructure, and agrobusiness megaprojects in the Latin American tropics.Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists,