Yakovlev Petr Pavlovich – Sc.D. in Economics, Chief Researcher, INION RAS
One of the main, defining characteristics of the current stage of geo-political and geo-economic transformations is the intensification of competition between the main centers of global economic power and political influence – the United States of America, the European Union and the People’s Republic of China. Numerous facts convincingly indicate that competition between these global actors is approaching its apogee and has unfolded in all directions: this is a struggle for control over the most capacious international consumer markets, the richest sources of critical raw materials and energy resources, the most promising production assets, key infrastructure facilities, including existing seaports and seaports under construction. The focus of the strategic attention of the «big geopolitical three», along with other macro-regions of the Global South (Asia and Africa), is also Latin America (or Latin-Caribbean America, LCA), which occupies an important geostrategic position in the Western Hemisphere and has abundant natural, human and industrial resources necessary for the development of the global economy at the stage of the next technological transition. For two centuries, the United States and the leading European powers (Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain) dominated the LCA economically and politically, but in the 21st century, faced with a powerful expansion in the region of the largest Chinese banks, as well as industrial, raw materials and construction corporations, and were forced to «surrender» one position after another. The development of this trend is creating a new geostrategic situation in Latin America and poses complex problems of political, trade and economic choice to the governments and business circles of the countries in the region.
European Union, USA, China, global competition, geostrategic importance of Latin America, energy resources, mining raw materials, industrial potential, port infrastructure.
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