Author Jeremy Garlick on China’s Strategic Advantage in the Global South
China’s political system provides key systemic advantages over its Western rivals in engaging the Global South.
U.S. and European officials often lament that they’ve fallen behind China when it comes to engaging Africa, Asia, the Americas, and other developing regions. Western governments aren’t set up to rapidly deploy the kind of money and resources that Beijing’s done with its Belt and Road Initiative over the past ten years.
While the U.S. and Europe are now trying to catch up, author Jeremy Garlick writes in his new book, Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption, that their efforts are hamstrung not only by money but also by history.
Jeremy joins Eric & Cobus to explain why he thinks China’s political system provides key systemic advantages over its Western rivals in engaging the Global South.
For a full transcript of this podcast, please see The China-Global South Project website.
Show Notes:
Asian Review of Books: “Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption” by Jeremy Garlick by Peter Gordon
Atlantic Council: Why China won’t win the Global South by Michael Schuman
Atlantic Council: Inside the United States’ plan to compete with China in the Global South by Katherine Walla
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