Cooperação técnico-científica espacial sino-brasileira: o programa China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS) e o planejamento estatal

Abstract

The China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite Program (CBERS) was the first technically successful international cooperation program in the space sector between emerging countries. In light of this fact, this dissertation analyzes Sino-Brazilian cooperation from the Brazilian perspective, as an extension of the strategic public macro-politics of emerging powers, in the International System. The study considers that this cooperation, in the space sector, appears as an opportunity for both countries to approach and articulate compatible solutions, between their similarities and their challenges; however, it gradually evolved asymmetrically among the actors, based on domestic dynamics. In addition, the distinction between Brazilian and Chinese performance in favor of their objectives is accentuated, as the asymmetries materialized, throughout the cooperation (1988-2019). This allows the evaluation of cooperation, as an act of interest to the res publica, pointing out its advances and setbacks and possible improvements in Brazilian performance. To this end, this case study uses an approach that interacts with the perspectives of the primary agents of Public Policy, the executing institutions and the State, as the coordinator of the actions of domestic actors. Which allows to underline, in Brazil, strictly personal performances, domestic institutional disputes and economic contingencies, as important extrinsic factors, in this cooperation. Thus, it is possible to verify the intricacies of the CBERS Program and the performance of the actors involved, in the context of the war-peace continuum, from the perspective of the Grand Strategy – complete or incomplete – characterized as a singular Public Policy and a preponderant factor for this debate, in a context, in which the priority is no longer the survival category and embraces a broader concept of security.