Small states are hardly just vulnerable victims, but often leverage their geopolitical importance to gain tremendous bargaining power.
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Wenyuan Wu is an independent researcher with a PhD in International Studies from the University of Miami. She previously served as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the university's Center for Latin American Studies, and her dissertation focused on the corporate social responsibility of Chinese national oil companies in Latin America, and has previously been published on the South China Morning Post, China Dialogue, and Oil Price, among other outlets.