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By Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to Britain (THE GUARDIAN, 09/02/12):
Rather a lot of megaphone diplomacy followed the recent UN vote on Syria. Confusion and anger flowed from British and western media. So why did Russia and China veto the UN security council draft resolution on Syria? As Chinese ambassador in the UK, I feel it is timely to give a more measured explanation of why China voted no. Also, I want to explain how together we can, must and should give peace a chance in Syria.
Since day one of this crisis, China has been watching the … Seguir leyendo
Por Xulio Ríos, director del Observatorio de la Política China (LA VANGUARDIA, 31/01/12):
La celebración del XVIII congreso del Partido Comunista de China (PCCH), previsto para octubre, será el gran acontecimiento político en el gigante asiático este año 2012. La elección de una nueva cúpula dirigente, con Xi Jinping y Li Keqiang a la cabeza, abrirá paso a una nueva generación de líderes que deberá afrontar los grandes desafíos de la presente década, entre ellos la probable culminación general del proceso de modernización iniciado a marchas forzadas en 1978. La plasmación del nuevo modelo de desarrollo y la definición … Seguir leyendo
By Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former Minister of Defense and National Security Adviser (Project Syndicate, 30/01/12):
China’s behavior during the recent presidential election in Taiwan demonstrates that its leaders have learned some lessons, if only the hard way. They have learned that China can have a greater impact on Taiwanese voters through trade and making people feel richer than by threats – even threats to fire missiles – which had been China’s electoral tactics in previous Taiwanese elections, particularly when a pro-independence candidate looked popular enough to win.
Indeed, fearing the popularity of Lee Teng-hui, who ran in the 1996 … Seguir leyendo
By Yu Yongding, President of the China Society of World Economics, former member of the monetary policy committee of the Peoples’ Bank of China and former Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of World Economics and Politics (Project Syndicate, 30/01/12):
From July 2005 until this past December, China’s renminbi (RMB) appreciated steadily. But then the RMB fell unexpectedly, hitting the bottom of the daily trading band set by the Peoples’ Bank of China (PBoC) for 11 sessions in a row. Though the RMB has since returned to its previous trajectory of slow appreciation, the episode may have … Seguir leyendo
Stephen S. Roach, a member of the faculty at Yale University, is Non-Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the author of The Next Asia (Project Syndicate, 26/01/12):
Long the most fragmented nation on earth, China is being brought together like never before by a new connectivity. Its Internet community is expanding at hyper speed, with profound implications for the Chinese economy, to say nothing of the country’s social norms and political system. This genie cannot be stuffed back in the bottle. Once connected, there is no turning back.
The pace of transformation is breathtaking. According to Internet World … Seguir leyendo
Por Xulio Ríos, director del Observatorio de la Política China (EL PAÍS, 23/01/12):
China celebró el pasado octubre el primer centenario de la revolución de Xinhai. Fue en 1911 cuando tardíamente puso fin a siglos de feudalismo, abriendo camino a un nuevo republicanismo que aportaría la modernización pendiente. El gigante oriental giró 180 grados con el objetivo de “aprender de Occidente para salvar a China”, aspiración que venía movilizando las mayores y mejores energías del país desde finales del siglo XIX.
Sin renegar al completo de ella, para la China continental de hoy, la revolución de 1911 se asoció … Seguir leyendo
By Joseph S. Nye Jr., a professor at Harvard and the author, most recently, of The Future of Power (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 18/01/12):
China’s president, Hu Jintao, greeted 2012 with an important essay warning that China was being battered by Western culture: “We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration,” he wrote, adding that “the international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.”
Essentially, Hu was saying that China was under assault … Seguir leyendo
By Dennis V. Hickey, director of the graduate program in global studies at Missouri State University. He was in Taiwan as an election observer at the invitation of the government (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 17/01/12):
Ma Ying-jeou, the incumbent president of Taiwan, has now won his hard-fought battle for reelection. What does it mean for the United States?
To state it plainly, Ma’s victory means one less headache for any U.S. administration, Democratic or Republican. China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949. The U.S. ended its formal treaty commitment to protect Taiwan from a Chinese attack in 1979, … Seguir leyendo
Por Augusto Soto, consultor y profesor en ESADE (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 17/01/12):
Tema: En el último año ha resurgido la cuestión de si el posicionamiento de Pekín ante Occidente obedece a una singularidad estratégica de China.
Resumen: Este análisis, en primer lugar, perfila el reciente posicionamiento chino en relación con el mundo occidental. En segundo lugar, presenta un panorama general de los distintos foros y diálogos internacionales en que participa China como parte de ese impulso.En tercer lugar, reflexiona sobre una probable singularidad estratégica en el ascenso chino.
Análisis: En diciembre Pekín anunció la creación de dos históricos fondos … Seguir leyendo
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
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 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
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 Yu Hua, the author of China in Ten Words. This essay was translated by Allan H. Barr from the Chinese (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/01/12):
A peculiar feature of Chinese society is that a complaint process runs parallel to, but outside, the legal system.
Victims of corruption and injustice have no faith in the law, and yet they dream that an upright official will emerge to right their wrongs. Although a complaint mechanism is in place at all levels of Chinese government, petitioners seem to believe that the central authorities are less susceptible to corruption, and so … Seguir leyendo