ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1142/S1013251117500114
Wei-Feng Tzeng, Kuan-Chen Lee, C. Macaulay
{"title":"Why Is China Unwelcome in Taiwan? Cultural Alienation, Democratic Anxiety or Economic Loss in Explaining Taiwanese Resistance to China","authors":"Wei-Feng Tzeng, Kuan-Chen Lee, C. Macaulay","doi":"10.1142/S1013251117500114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251117500114","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the factors that affect Taiwanese citizens’ resistance to closer relations with China. Elements in Taiwanese society have recently exhibited a strong sense of anxiety in the fac...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"11 1","pages":"1750011"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73064661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1142/S1013251117500126
Hiroko Naito
{"title":"The Political Role of the People’s Court and Authoritarian Regime Resilience: The Revision of the Environmental Protection Law in China","authors":"Hiroko Naito","doi":"10.1142/S1013251117500126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251117500126","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) designed the political role of the People’s Court for authoritarian regime resilience. In particular, the case of the revision of the E...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"8 1","pages":"1750012"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91351093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1142/S1013251117500102
D. Fell
{"title":"Merger and Takeover Attempts in Taiwanese Party Politics","authors":"D. Fell","doi":"10.1142/S1013251117500102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251117500102","url":null,"abstract":"Taiwan has experienced a number of party splits and attempted mergers since democratization. These have played a critical role in the development of the country’s party system. While a number of st...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"99 1","pages":"1750010"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76735349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-10-23DOI: 10.1142/S1013251117400033
C. Teng
{"title":"The Pattern of China’s Financial Initiative in Latin America: A Comparative Study","authors":"C. Teng","doi":"10.1142/S1013251117400033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251117400033","url":null,"abstract":"Since the start of the 21st century, it is clear that China has increasingly turned its attention to Latin America. Although not included in China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative officially, Latin America has already garnered substantial commitment from China as a result of the latter’s financial funding for development projects and the enhancement of two-way trade relations. In recent years, scholarly research has tended to analyze China’s financial clout and its impact on the governmental domestic and external decisions of Latin American countries. In this study, my purpose is to examine China’s financial initiative and its influence on development projects in Latin America. With the advent of a “new normal” in China, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang respectively proposed a “1+3+6” model and “3×3” model in 2014 and 2015 — a reflection of China’s assertive economic diplomacy during the Xi era. Their plan was to have China adopt a more active position toward the provision of financial loans to Latin American n...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"8 1","pages":"1740003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87680082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-10-23DOI: 10.1142/S101325111740001X
N. Castañeda
{"title":"New Dependency?: Economic Links between China and Latin America","authors":"N. Castañeda","doi":"10.1142/S101325111740001X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S101325111740001X","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the most recent trends of Chinese finance (foreign direct investment (FDI) and development loans) in Latin America and their impact on economic development. In particular, this paper explores the economic and institutional factors that attract loans and FDI from China to Latin America. Based on data from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the United Nations on Chinese FDI and development loans to Latin America, this article argues that Chinese capital flows to the region, rather than politically motivated, are mainly motivated by trade interests, the evolution of the market of commodities, and natural resources-related policy goals. These capital flows are functional to the Chinese government’s use of soft power in the region, but these goals are secondary to market-based interests.","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"1971 1","pages":"1740001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87789853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-10-23DOI: 10.1142/S1013251117020015
Ariel C. Armony, A. Pérez-Liñán
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue — China and Latin American Political Economy: How China Became Part of Latin American Studies","authors":"Ariel C. Armony, A. Pérez-Liñán","doi":"10.1142/S1013251117020015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251117020015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"69 1","pages":"1702001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90251061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-10-23DOI: 10.1142/S1013251117400057
Hirokazu Kikuchi
{"title":"The Representation of East Asia in Latin American Legislatures","authors":"Hirokazu Kikuchi","doi":"10.1142/S1013251117400057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251117400057","url":null,"abstract":"What is the representation of East Asia in Latin American legislatures? Existing studies have focused on individual politicians of East Asian descent such as Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru, but no systematic research has been done on the political representation of East Asia in Latin America. In order to fill this gap, this study analyzes the descriptive and substantive aspects of East Asian representation in Latin America. For the descriptive dimension, this article reviews the composition of legislators of East Asian descent in each Latin American country and finds that people of Japanese descent are “overrepresented” in the Peruvian and Argentine lower houses, while people of Korean and Chinese descent are underrepresented. Using the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies as an example, this study also reveals that deputies of East Asian descent differ from other deputies in terms of their political careers. As for the substantive dimension, this study focuses on Brazilian deputies’ responses to the...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"18 1","pages":"1740005"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73263514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-10-23DOI: 10.1142/S1013251117400021
Yen-Pin Su, Ó. Delgado
{"title":"Is China Becoming a Hegemonic Challenge in Latin America and the Caribbean? A Political Economy Analysis of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Canal Project","authors":"Yen-Pin Su, Ó. Delgado","doi":"10.1142/S1013251117400021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251117400021","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we provide a theoretical and empirical evaluation of the argument that China is becoming a hegemonic challenge in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We argue that, while there is a trend that China has become increasingly dominant in the economic affairs of LAC, the perceived strength of China as a challenger to the U.S. hegemony is shaped by different strategies of Chinese involvement. Focusing on the financing arrangement for infrastructure projects, our case study of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Canal project shows that the challenge that China has posed to the U.S. hegemony might not be as strong as expected. We analyze the controversies revolving around the Canal project and examine how local communities have responded to the project. We conclude that, while the Nicaragua Interoceanic Canal project is ambitious, its success depends on how much support the PRC government and Chinese banks provide and how well the Nicaraguan government addresses the various concerns of the local comm...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"76 1","pages":"1740002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74853614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-10-23DOI: 10.1142/S1013251117400045
Miguel Carreras
{"title":"Public Attitudes toward an Emerging China in Latin America","authors":"Miguel Carreras","doi":"10.1142/S1013251117400045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251117400045","url":null,"abstract":"In the past two decades, China has substantially increased its economic presence in Latin America. The impressive rate of economic growth in China has resulted in a voracious appetite for Latin American commodities and energy sources. China has also become a major investor in the region, and has loaned billions of dollars to Latin American countries. This paper evaluates how aware Latin American citizens are of this increased economic presence of China, and also studies citizens’ attitudes toward the rising influence of China in Latin America. Public attitudes toward the Chinese economic and political model, and evaluations of the Chinese popular culture are also presented and discussed. The evidence suggests that the image of China is improving in Latin America as a result of its new economic role in the region. However, Chinese soft power faces several limitations in the region. The Chinese political and economic models, and the Chinese popular culture are still not very attractive in Latin America.","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":"1740004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83140027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1142/S1013251117500060
Shih‐Jiunn Shi
{"title":"Reviving the Dragon: Social Ideas and Social Policy Development in Modern China","authors":"Shih‐Jiunn Shi","doi":"10.1142/S1013251117500060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251117500060","url":null,"abstract":"Social policy development in China is closely related to the generation and diffusion of social knowledge through which political and social elites define social problems and elaborate policy solut...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"8 1","pages":"1750006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72744763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}