Jonathan Tepperman

Este archivo solo abarca los artículos del autor incorporados a este sitio a partir del 1 de diciembre de 2006. Para fechas anteriores realice una búsqueda entrecomillando su nombre.

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking at the opening ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Beijing, October 2022. Tingshu Wang / Reuters

MundoAsia

The last two months have been among the most momentous in recent Chinese history. First came the 20th Party Congress, which President Xi Jinping used to extirpate his few remaining rivals. Then, a few weeks later, the country erupted in the most widespread protests China has witnessed since the mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in 1989. And then, barely a week later, came the startling denouement: in a rare (if unacknowledged) concession, Beijing announced it was loosening some of the zero-COVID policies that had driven so many angry people into the streets.

It has been a head-spinning season, even by the turbulent standards of contemporary China.…  Seguir leyendo »

Lo que los canadienses le pueden enseñar a Trump sobre migración

MundoAmérica, ,

Durante un discurso en Iowa la semana pasada, en medio de enérgicos pronunciamientos a favor de un muro fronterizo y la aplicación más estricta de las leyes migratorias, el presidente Donald Trump abogó por algo que, sin duda, es menos sanguinario: “Transformar en su totalidad el sistema migratorio para incluir un sistema basado en méritos”.

Esta es una de las pocas posturas congruentes que el mandatario ha expresado desde que asumió el cargo; se manifestó por una reforma similar en el discurso que pronunció en enero ante el congreso. Sin embargo, la verdadera sorpresa es que su fuente de inspiración sea Canadá.…  Seguir leyendo »

President Enrique Pena Nieto at the United Nations last month. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

MundoAmérica

Back in 2012, Mexico was a mess, seemingly stuck in a death-cycle of dysfunction that looked even worse than the one gripping Washington today. The country’s Congress was deadlocked, and its many problems were spinning out of control. Since 2006, the war on drugs had claimed 60,000 lives. Life expectancy was the lowest among nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Corruption was leaching away 10 percent of gross domestic product, and vast monopolies were smothering the economy (companies run by just one man, Carlos Slim, accounted for more than one-third of the stock exchange). Oil production, on which the government depended for a third of its budget, had dropped by a quarter in just 10 years.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAsia

Bangkok was rocked by anti-government demonstrations earlier this month — once a depressingly familiar sight.

But that bad news shouldn’t overshadow the good. Disruptive protests may have been all too common in Thailand just a short while ago, but in the last two years, they’ve become an anomaly. The country has gone from a virtual wreck to a booming, and relatively stable, success story. Figuring out how it’s managed to do that is important, and not just for Thailand’s 65 million citizens. For if a place this polarized can pull itself back from the brink, other bitterly divided societies might be able to as well.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAsia, , ,

The political turmoil currently roiling Northeast Asia — a region that should otherwise be basking in success right now — can often seem bewildering to outsiders. One key to understanding, however, can be found in a surprising location: a single recent photograph.

On May 12, a journalist snapped a picture of Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, grinning from the cockpit of a fighter jet. Such politician photo-ops are neither unusual nor controversial in the West, where the worst thing they tend to provoke is eye-rolling (think of Michael Dukakis looking like Snoopy in a tank during his failed race for the presidency in 1988, or George W.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoOriente Próximo,

Syria’s rebels are in retreat, President Bashar al-Assad’s loyalist forces are laying waste to their former strongholds, and the death toll is mounting: the latest United Nations reports put it around 7,500. As the body count has increased, so, too, have calls for outside intervention. It’s time for the West to step in — but only after honestly debating what it will take to stop the carnage.

Policy makers and advocacy groups have spent the past few weeks scrambling to come up with solutions. So far most of the discussion has focused on half-measures: arming the rebels or setting up opposition safe havens on Syria’s borders.…  Seguir leyendo »