Archivo etiqueta «China»
By John Lee, a foreign policy fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and the author of Will China Fail? (Centre for Independent Studies, 2007) (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 18/02/10):
Several years before his historic visit to China in 1972, Richard Nix -on articulated what was to become the contemporary rationale behind America’s policy of engagement toward China: Taking the long view, we simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations – there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates and threaten its neighbors. Fast… Seguir leyendo
Por Laia Gordi Vila, periodista residente en China, analista de China-files.com (EL PERIÓDICO, 18/02/10):
Últimamente se habla mucho del conflicto suave entre China y Estados Unidos. Después del noviazgo entre Obama y Hu Jintao cuando el primero visitó a su homólogo en Pekín en noviembre, la relación diplomática posiblemente más importante del mundo parece ir especialmente mal. Pero ¿cómo de mal? Primero no se pusieron de acuerdo para la cumbre de Copenhague y aquello fue un desastre. Después vino el rifirrafe con Google, que de todas formas sigue funcionando –siempre a medias– en la gran China. En enero, Clinton anunció… Seguir leyendo
By Benjamin P. Tyree, a Washington writer and a media fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 17/02/10):
Serious challenges from China are reducing U.S. influence abroad, and America needs to shake up and focus its national security institutions on this problem, says a veteran Republican international relations expert and scholar. Beijing’s robust economic and market growth under an authoritarian government is gaining ground as a model for developing nations in the Third World, with China as a sponsor. This, in the words of Stefan Halper, is a key part of a process that is “shrinking the West.”… Seguir leyendo
By Richard Bush, senior fellow and director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and the author of Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 12/02/10):
Not surprisingly, China is responding badly to the Pentagon’s $6-billion arms sale to Taiwan. The Beijing government has suspended security exchanges with the Pentagon and promised to sanction American defense companies. Chinese scholars and other commentators see nefarious motives in the U.S. action and warn of negative consequences. Some call for tough retaliation. High dudgeon is in season. In Washington, some worry that Beijing… Seguir leyendo
By Retired Navy Adm. James A. Lyons, a former commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 12/02/10):
On a recent visit to Australia, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus downplayed the threat posed by China’s rapid modernization of its military forces, highlighted in Australia’s 2009 Defense White Paper. With no discernable threat, China’s unprecedented force modernization program has grown at a double-digit rate for the past 10 years.
Though China professes that the modernization of its military forces threatens no one and is only for defensive purposes,… Seguir leyendo
By Lee Edwards, distinguished fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation and chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 11/02/10):
Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong. According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,”an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with – by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.
For Mao, the No. 1 enemy was the intellectual. The… Seguir leyendo
By Wang Dan, a student leader at Peking University who helped organize the Tiananmen protest, was returned to prison from 1995 to 1998 and now teaches history at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/02/10):
Twenty years ago, I was in Qincheng, the most well-known of China’s political prisons, along with several hundred other students and intellectuals who had taken part in the student movement of the previous summer. On a particularly cold winter morning, I sat on my bed and picked up my copy of The People’s Daily, the government newspaper we were allowed to read,… Seguir leyendo
By Wei Jingsheng, a democracy activist who was in jail in China from 1979 to 1993 and now lives in Washington (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/02/10):
Nine months before Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa, the Chinese police cracked down on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, and in August 1989 I was sent to Hebei Prison for incitement to overthrow state power. My cellmates, like so many Chinese people at the time, were pessimistic about China’s future. “Why do you persist?” they would ask me. “Democracy and freedom are good, but there is not much hope for them… Seguir leyendo
By Geng He, the wife of Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who has been held incommunicado by the Chinese government since Feb. 4, 2009 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/02/10):
One year ago today, China kidnapped my husband.
I don’t know where he is. I don’t know what is being done to him. The only thing I know is why he disappeared: My husband, Gao Zhisheng, defied Beijing by representing people the government finds threatening. As a leading human rights lawyer in China, he fought for those who had been abused by police, those who had… Seguir leyendo
Por Francis Pisani, periodista (EL PAÍS, 02/02/10):
Las motivaciones de Google para pelearse con el Gobierno chino a plena luz cuentan menos que el juego que están abriendo. Al retar públicamente a un enorme poder político se afirma como actor político cuyo poder no radica en un territorio, cohetes o divisiones blindadas, pero sí en una red global de servidores, ancho de banda e imagen pública renovada. Nadie pone en duda el deseo de sus dirigentes -cuando pueden- de “No hacer el mal” (Don’t do evil), como reza el lema de la empresa que, sin embargo, no les impidió aceptar… Seguir leyendo
By John J. Tkacik Jr., a retired Foreign Service officer, chief of China intelligence in the State Department during the Clinton administration and Thaddeus G. McCotter, chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 27/01/10):
China’s cyber-attacks on Google these past several weeks were, sadly, mere replays of state-sponsored Chinese attacks on literally thousands of other American and foreign companies, human rights groups, individuals and, yes, even the U.S. government, including Congress.
A University of Toronto study last year identified more than 1,200 networks worldwide penetrated by a single Chinese-government-controlled cyber-intelligence unit. According to a Northrop Grumman investigation… Seguir leyendo
Par Frédéric Koller (LE TEMPS, 27/01/10):
La décision que doit prendre le Conseil fédéral concernant l’accueil de deux Ouïgours (des Chinois musulmans), ex-détenus de Guantanamo, est un casse-tête dont la résolution sera révélatrice de ses choix diplomatiques et de l’affirmation ou non de certains de ses principes. Cette décision, pour caricaturer, irritera soit les Etats-Unis et les défenseurs des droits de l’homme, soit la Chine et les représentants des milieux économiques. En d’autres termes, le choix final pourrait être déterminé par l’évaluation des moindres dommages collatéraux.
Bien sûr, Berne pourrait s’en sortir par une pirouette en invoquant des problèmes techniques… Seguir leyendo
Par Florent Parmentier, politologue et diplômé de Sciences Po Paris (LE TEMPS, 21/01/10):
L’Ukraine fait figure d’«homme malade de l’Europe». Au sens littéral, c’est le pays qui a été le plus touché par l’épidémie de grippe A, avec plus de 300 victimes. Economiquement, elle n’est pas en meilleure santé: c’est bien d’un effondrement qu’il faut parler puisque le PIB a chuté de 18%, du fait de la chute de l’activité industrielle et des exportations d’acier, ainsi que des vulnérabilités du secteur financier. C’est dans ce contexte peu réjouissant que l’Ukraine élit son président. Si le précédent scrutin en 2004 avait… Seguir leyendo
Por Ian Buruma, profesor de Democracia, Derechos Humanos y Periodismo en el Bard College; autor de Asesinato en Amsterdam: La muerte de Theo van Gogh y los límites de la tolerancia © Project Syndicate, 2010. Traducción: Claudia Martínez (LA VANGUARDIA, 19/01/10):
Para China, el 2009 fue un buen año. La economía china siguió creciendo estrepitosamente en medio de una recesión mundial. El presidente norteamericano, Barack Obama, visitó China, más con el espíritu de quien suplica ante una corte imperial que como el líder de la mayor superpotencia del mundo. Incluso la cumbre de Copenhague sobre cambio climático terminó exactamente como… Seguir leyendo
Por Xulio Ríos, director del Observatorio de la Política China (EL PAÍS, 18/01/10):
¿Debemos temer la emergencia de China o, por el contrario, debemos celebrarla? ¿Qué mundo “armonioso” nos espera? Lo primero que conviene tener presente es no perder la perspectiva. Si no fuera por el yen, que permanece en una tasa elevada frente al dólar, China sería ya el número dos mundial. Pero su PIB per cápita, inferior a 4.000 dólares, está muy lejos de los 40.000 de Japón.
Según el Informe de Desarrollo Humano 2009 del PNUD, China es el país que ha registrado un mayor avance, pero… Seguir leyendo