Archivo categoría «Asia»
Por Matt Browne, investigador titular del Center for American Progress, en el que dirige la Iniciativa para el Progreso Global. Es miembro del consejo de Policy Network y colaborador de la Fundación IDEAS. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 15/01/12):
Durante un almuerzo reciente con el embajador de Nueva Zelanda en Estados Unidos, Mike Moore, China se convirtió en el centro de la discusión. El embajador, que tuvo ocasión de supervisar la entrada de dicho país en la Organización Mundial de Comercio cuando era su director general, afirmó que el experimento había sido un éxito. La incorporación … Seguir leyendo
By Su Chi, the chairman of the Taipei Forum who served as secretary general of Taiwan’s National Security Council from 2008 to 2010 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13/01/12):
For most of its history, Taiwan’s destiny was determined by three great powers — China, Japan and America. Now, as the 18th-largest economy in the world and a thoroughly democratized nation, Taiwan is still perceived by some in Washington as a potential bargaining chip in crafting a new relationship with China. This is a mistake.
It is true that Taiwan’s status is the only dispute today that is likely to drag … Seguir leyendo
Por Xulio Rios, director del Observatorio de la Política China (EL PERIÓDICO, 13/01/12):
Hu Jintao se juega en las elecciones taiwanesas de mañana (presidenciales y legislativas) buena parte del crédito de su política hacia la isla. Es verdad que al poco de iniciar su mandato al frente del Partido Comunista de China (PCCh) en el 2002, confirmó la aprobación de la ley antisecesión (2005), que viene a proclamar la disposición de China a recurrir a la fuerza para impedir la independencia de Taiwán. Pero justamente a partir de ese año y con la puesta en marcha del diálogo directo … Seguir leyendo
By Jay Schalin, director of state policy at the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 10/01/12):
In 1978, the Chinese government made a decision to change direction. Rather than continue the stagnating communist policies that mired the country in Third World poverty, it started to liberalize its economy. The gamble paid off, and today, China has the world’s second-largest economy, with a large trade surplus and near-double-digit annual growth rates.
The Chinese government just made another move that also should improve the nation’s economy – this time to streamline its higher-education system. China’s state-run … Seguir leyendo
By Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the independent Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, and the author of Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan (Project Syndicate, 10/01/12):
The launch of trilateral strategic consultations among the United States, India, and Japan, and their decision to hold joint naval exercises this year, signals efforts to form an entente among the Asia-Pacific region’s three leading democracies. These efforts – in the world’s most economically dynamic region, where the specter of a power imbalance looms large – also have been underscored by the Obama administration’s new … Seguir leyendo
By Brahma Chellaney, professor at the independent Center for Policy Research in New Delhi and the author of Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan [Versión en español] (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 09/01/12):
At a time when the specter of a power imbalance looms large in Asia, the just-concluded visit of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan to India cemented a fast-growing relationship between two natural allies. The path has been opened to adding concrete strategic content to their ties, including by building close naval collaboration.
The balance of power in Asia will be determined by … Seguir leyendo
By Daniel A. Bell, a professor at Shanghai’s Jiaotong University and Beijing’s Tsinghua University and co-author of The Spirit of Cities (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/01/12):
From the outside, China often appears to be a highly centralized monolith. Unlike Europe’s cities, which have been able to preserve a certain identity and cultural distinctiveness despite the homogenizing forces of globalization, most Chinese cities suffer from a drab uniformity.
But China is more like Europe than it seems. Indeed, when it comes to economics, China is more a thin political union composed of semiautonomous cities — some with as many inhabitants … Seguir leyendo
By B. R. Myers, the director of the international studies department at Dongseo University and the author of The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves — and Why It Matters (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/01/12):
Kim Jong-Un can count himself lucky that his first birthday in power falls today, on a Sunday, obviating the need for a new national holiday to be created at an awkward time. But the ease with which the new “supreme leader” has taken over North Korea has little to do with luck. For one thing, the propaganda apparatus did its job well. We … Seguir leyendo
By Eamonn Fingleton, an author who predicted the Japanese financial crash of the 1990s. He is working on a book about the end of the American dream (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/01/12):
Despite some small signs of optimism about the United States economy, unemployment is still high, and the country seems stalled.
Time and again, Americans are told to look to Japan as a warning of what the country might become if the right path is not followed, although there is intense disagreement about what that path might be. Here, for instance, is how the CNN analyst David Gergen… Seguir leyendo
Por Sergio Ramírez, escritor (EL PAÍS, 07/01/12):
Los funerales de Estado, iguales que las bodas reales, son grandes puestas en escena destinadas a conmover a las multitudes que se alinean en las calles o a las puertas de las catedrales y palacios, contenidas por las vallas de la policía, y que igualmente congregan a millones frente a los aparatos de televisión como en las grandes lides del fútbol. Los funerales del presidente Kennedy, por ejemplo. La boda y los funerales de la princesa Diana, quien tuvo la doble gracia de casarse y ser enterrada en olor de multitudes.
Pero … Seguir leyendo
By Stephen Blank, a professor for the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. The views expressed here do not represent those of the U.S. Army, Defense Department or the U.S. government (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 07/01/12):
Iran’s capture of an American drone compels us to revisit some difficult, unwelcome but fundamental security issues. If Iran downed a sophisticated U.S. drone, as it claims, that would represent a monumental Iranian intelligence coup in learning how to override the drone’s command-and-control system and then guide it safely down to earth. That conclusion, if true, would … Seguir leyendo
Por Lee Byong-chul. Formó parte del equipo de planificación de seguridad nacional de los Presidentes Kim Young-sam y Kim Dae-jung y en la actualidad es investigador senior del Instituto por la Paz y la Cooperación, con sede en Seúl. Traducido del inglés por David Meléndez Tormen (Project Syndicate, 06/01/12):
El ascenso al poder en Corea del Norte del regordete Kim Jong-un, de 29 años de edad, ha acaparado titulares en todo el mundo, pero la historia coreana más importante en torno a jóvenes y política ocurre en Corea del Sur. Allí, los votantes jóvenes están más agitados, son más … Seguir leyendo
Por Ian Buruma, profesor de Democracia y Derechos Humanos en el Bard College. Su obra más reciente es Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents. Traducido del inglés por Rocío L. Barrientos (Project Syndicate, 04/01/12)
¿Es posible que todo un pueblo enloquezca? Indiscutiblemente, algunas veces parece que sí.
Las imágenes de cientos de miles de norcoreanos dando alaridos de dolor por la muerte de Kim Jong-il sugieren algo que es muy desconcertante. Pero, ¿qué es?, ¿una muestra de delirio colectivo?, ¿la práctica de un ritual de masoquismo colectivo?
Kim fue un brutal dictador que se mimaba con … Seguir leyendo
Por Jorge Edwards, escritor (EL PAÍS, 04/01/12):
China está más cerca de Francia que de Chile. Después de largos años, recuerdo diferentes experiencias francesas relacionadas con China. Me tocó presenciar, en décadas pasadas, un periodo de descubrimientos, de búsqueda, de contrastes. Hace poco, en el Museo del Louvre, visité una extraordinaria exposición de la Ciudad Prohibida de Pekín. Es una muestra de encuentros entre Occidente y el misterioso y remoto Imperio del Centro. El centro del mundo conocido del siglo XVI, del siglo XVIII: China. Desde el punto de vista de los chinos, se entiende. Hasta allí llegaban los … Seguir leyendo
By Shashi Tharoor, a former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under-Secretary General, a member of India’s parliament and the author of a dozen books, including India from Midnight to the Millennium and Nehru: the Invention of India (Project Syndicate, 03/01/12):
India ended 2011 amid political chaos, as the much-awaited “Lokpal Bill,” aimed at creating a strong, independent anti-corruption agency, collapsed amid a welter of recrimination in the parliament’s upper house, after having passed the lower house two days earlier. The episode, which leaves the bill in suspended animation until its possible revival at the next … Seguir leyendo