The Analysis of China-Taiwan Diplomatic Competition in Central America in the Post-Cold War Era
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Chen, Pei-yu
Abstract
After the Chinese Communist Party established the PRC government in 1949, the PRC government and the ROC government launched in the all world different kind of Diplomatic Competition. In the Post Cold War Era, the territory of the competition is still obviously focused on Africa, Latin America and Caribbean Sea Area. In the Post Cold War Era, ROC lost Senegal and Chad in Africa, and also lost Malawi in 2007. Recently, ROC only have Swaziland, Burkina Faso, Gambia ans Sao Tome and Principe in Africa, and there’s no new diplomatic relationship established in this era. In Latin America and Caribbean Sea, ROC lost Granada and Dominic in this era and in 2007, Roc also lost Cost Rica, Which is one of the most important country in Central America, but in the same year ROC regained the relation with Santa Lucia. For ROC and PRC, one of the essential target of the diplomatic competition, is regardinghe definition of the law status and the international existing space of ROC. As long as ROC lost Costa Rica in 2007, it seemed that there was a caution for ROC in the Central American area which is always well connected to ROC for the past 60 years. n the Post Cold War Era, Latin American countries developed very fast, and duo to the influence of the democratization, many countries transfered from military government to the the presidential system primarily democratic regime. Also because of th anti-America influence, the emerging left wing political party penetrated the democracy through the electral way to obtain the political power in Latin American; In the economical aspect, besides the fast liberalization, the regional integration becomes one kind of tidal current, those countries don’t spend much time in achievement. Not only “the North America free trading area” causes American, Canadian, the Mexican Three Kingdoms to be able the conformity, there is also six economical integration in Latin America after Second World War, and among them, the most influential integration should be MERCOSUD. Moreover, in the Post Cold War Era, Latin American countries also start to track down their own international recognition, therefore various countries participate in the international multilateral organization, and that would also be another significant transformation of this region. With the rapid change in Latin America, there will or will not exist change in the diplomatic competition of ROC and PRC is the main question which the author is concerned. n the Post Cold War Era, the diplomatic competition of ROC and PRC in the Latin America area are one of the important foreign policy subjects of ROC, because the existence of the diplomatic relation is still indispensable to the international existing space of ROC, and the Latin America country is precisely the most important region in the diplomatic relation of ROC, especially the Central America area. The Central America area is, in the past dozens of year, the most important sub-area of the ROC and PRC diplomatic competition. To ROC, the loss in this region is not only lost seriously in the international existing space, but also the loss of diplomatic acknowledge from other country. Therefore, whether the Latin America''s political and economical change can create the change in Post Cold War Era to the Latin American countries? Whether there is the possibility that the change will affect the political influence of ROC and PRC? Whether ROC or PRC’s present Latin American policy is appropriate to the occasion? How can ROC guarantee its diplomatic relations in this sub-area? Based on all sorts of factors above, the author decide the scope to this article as Central America, moreover containing Dominican Republic and Haiti, which had close interacts with Central America, in order to avoid oversized research scope. In this paper, the author discusses first the past diplomatic competition and the foreign policy between ROC and PRC in Latin America (in particular Central America, Dominica and Haiti), and then analyzed this the regional political and economical change in the Post Cold War Era, in which will also include the analysis of “the Free Trade Area of the Americas” and “American, Dominican and the Central America trade agreement.” Moreover, the author will also discuss the change of behavior about the participation of international organization of these countries, and then analyze the potential consequence in the diplomatic competition of ROC and PRC. fterwards, the author will discuss the potential responds of ROC as well as PRC in to the change of Central America, Dominica and Haiti, and also discuss the influence of the diplomatic competition. Moreover, the author will also discuss the similarities and differences as well as the confrontation and the impact of ROC and PRC in the diplomatic competition. In the end, the author will also propose some suggestion to the foreign policy of ROC in Central America, Dominican and Haiti''s the proposal.
Subjects
diplomatic competition
cross strait
diplomacy
Central America
Latin America
SDGs
Type
thesis
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