| Summary: | 博士 === 淡江大學 === 國際事務與戰略研究所博士班 === 104 === China’s meteoric economic rise, vision of world politics and governance, and growing global political influence are reshaping the international economic and political system. It is in these global economic and political dynamics that China remarkably expanded its presence in the Caribbean over the last decade. Using a pragmatic policy approach that stresses correspondingly bilateralism, multilateralism, and regionalism, China enhanced both official and unofficial relations with the Caribbean nations. It strategically joined the major regional and sub-regional organizations across the Americas that include the OAS, ECLAC, IDB, and the CDB to advance its interests and geopolitically enhance its global power. As a disclosure of its growing self-confidence, assertiveness, and great power status along with its global agenda and vision to gradually establish a new international order based on multipolarity and multilateralism, China established the China-CELAC Forum, an institutional mechanism of Sino-LAC economic and political dialogue. Through the conduct of proactive economic, cultural and military diplomacy directed by stratagems such as the politics of benevolence, extra-military emphasis, and minimalism, Sino-Caribbean economic, cultural and military relations have been strengthened. Beyond isolating Taiwan by consolidating support for the “One China” policy and securing strategic natural resources through diversification, China’s increasing engagement with the Caribbean increases Chinese global influence and visibility and is establishing a sphere of influence in the United States’ doorstep as a counter-containment strategy against U.S. military and geopolitical presence in Asia Pacific. Although China’s growing influence in the Caribbean hitherto do not pose any direct threat to U.S. national interests, its incidental effect might nonetheless growingly condition Washington’s ability to pursue its national goals and interests to Beijing’s compliance.
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