Reframing Puerto Rican Advocacy: How the Emerging U.S.-China Rift Can Help Puerto Rico Realize Greater Autonomy

This Note argues that the aims of advocates would be best served by forcing a convergence of interests between themselves and the foreign policy elite—specifically by exploiting strategic blindsides in U.S. soft power and their ramifications for the growing conflict between the United States and China. This Note advances that by leveraging the current zeitgeist within the foreign policy and international trade community of safeguarding supply chains by “de- risking” China and the growing impetus to wage ideological warfare against China to shore up U.S. soft power, advocates would be able to more efficiently realize a true free association between the United States and Puerto Rico. In other words, by reframing the issues underlying the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico in foreign policy terms, rather than almost purely a matter of domestic policy and law, Puerto Rican decolonization advocates will have a better chance of success.

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Tabrizi, Reframing Puerto Rican Advocacy: How the Emerging U.S.-China Rift Can Help Puerto

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