- 著者
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舛方 周一郎
- 出版者
- 一般財団法人 日本国際政治学会
- 雑誌
- 国際政治 (ISSN:04542215)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.2022, no.207, pp.207_81-207_96, 2022-03-30 (Released:2022-03-31)
- 参考文献数
- 51
The purpose of this article is to analyze how China has been involved in Brazil’s climate change policies that promote renewable energy. In the 2000s, Latin American countries began implementing economic development with technical and financial strategic partnerships with China. From this situation, it is argued that China created new dominant and subordinate relations to replace the United States, and thus became involved in the economic development of Latin America.However, previous studies on strategic partnerships such as Xu (2015), Wise (2020) have not thoroughly explained the dimension of “sustainability,” although some have focused on economic and trade policies. There were challenges, such as underestimating the aim and autonomy of recipient countries, considering how Latin American countries that accepted China’s involvement became subordinate to the Chinese Communist Party.To overcome the challenges of the previous studies, this article describes China-Brazil relations about climate change policies in the Brazilian administrations of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Vana Rousseff, and Michel Miguel Temer Lulia. First, The Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping eras turned when China began working on domestic environmental recovery. Meanwhile, in Brazil, the Lula administration had begun full-scale utilization of strategic partnerships with China and established cooperation in climate change policies based on multilateral and bilateral dialogues. The Rousseff administration upgraded its strategic partnership with China after hosting The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), entered into the Paris Agreement, and promoted domestic renewable energy policies, in which China was also involved. Then the Temer administration announced to deepen its pragmatic “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership” with China after it transitioned power. China strengthened its involvement in Brazil’s climate change policies by launching the “Green Belt and Road Initiative”, including the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”This process resulted in this article discovering that Brazil will maintain its economic dependence on China even if the administration’s political position changes due to transition of government. However, this article shows that Brazil utilizes China’s diplomatic strategy when involved in other countries’ policies. Brazil also has the autonomy to adjust its interests between China and other members in multilateral negotiations by utilizing the negotiation grounds of strategic partnerships such as the China-Brazil Commission of High Level of Agreement and Cooperation (COSBAN), BRICS Summit.The theoretical implication is that the inclusion of the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development in the strategic cooperation between China and Brazil also promotes comprehensive cooperation between the two. However, China’s deeper involvement in Brazil’s climate change polices might also promote negatively “Environmental Authoritarianism.”