Its strategy involves a major military buildup combined with various carrots and sticks to keep opposition to its goals divided and ineffectual."

"In many ways THAAD and Takaichi are two chapters in the same ongoing episode. Beijing is dissatisfied with the East Asian status quo -- U.S. alliances and forces and China's own unrealized territorial ambitions, especially regarding Taiwan...

economic and ontological security gains, played a central role in Brazil’s accommodation of China’s preferences. To borrow Lula’s words, ‘the Chinese turned the tables’.”

power status through BRICS
We attribute this disconnect to Brazil’s deeply rooted narrative of embedded autonomy. Brazil reached out in solidarity to build an international regime with China. This ‘outsourcing’ of antidependency, with its expectations that China would provide Brazil with outsized...

has likely contributed to Brazil’s de-industrialisation and dependency. Nevertheless, the perception persists that increased Chinese trade and investment is beneficial, despite its reproduction of the colonial centre-periphery relationship, and that the country is rising alongside China to major...

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