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Information Age Imperialism: China, ‘Race,’ and Neo-Colonialism in Africa and Latin America

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

Volume 52, Number 2, Article 3

5-14-2021

James Dever

James Dever is a Professor of Cyber Law for the Department of the Air Force. He holds concurrent teaching appoints at the Air War College, JAG School, Air Command and Staff College, and the Cyber College. He is an editorial board member on the Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare and advisory director for the Center on National Security and Human Rights Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He has published numerous book chapters and law articles on Cyber Law, International Law, and Human Rights Law.

Jack Dever

Jack Dever is the Chief AML Officer, Financial Services, at UBS. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago), and prior to that, he was Assistant General Counsel in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Security Law Branch, Counterterrorism Division. He began his career as a U.S. Army Judge Advocate. He served multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and is the recipient of the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart Medals. He holds a LL.M. in National Security Law from The Georgetown University Law Center.

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• I. INTRODUCTION

• II. CHINA IN CRISIS

  • A. The Chinese Context

  • B. Behind the Wolf

• III. STATE-SPONSORED DOMESTIC TERROR

  • A. Hong Kong

  • B. Tragedy in Xinjiang

  • C. High-Tech Surveillance

  • D. Opportunity Wasted

• IV. GREAT POWER COMPETITION

  • A. Threat Vectors

  • B. BRI: The Foreign Policy Vision

• V. COLONIALISM

  • A. The Colonial Encounter

  • B. The Creation of ‘Race’

  • C. Colonialism in Africa

  • D. Colonialism in Latin America

• VI. CHINESE NEO-COLONIALISM

  • A. Mutual Unequal

  • B. China in Latin America

  • C. Medical Diplomacy

• VII. CONCLUSION: AMERICAN PROTEST, GLOBAL FREEDOM