Columna Infobe, 02.05.2019 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentinoLa seguridad internacional sigue siendo materia de preocupante deterioro con un aumento generalizado, por segundo año consecutivo, del gasto en defensa. Los desembolsos militares globales, en términos interanuales, subieron un 2,6% y marcan un récord desde 1988, el final de la Guerra Fría. Las...
Western Wishful Thinking – ‘Excluding Everything That Makes China What It Is’
Artículo Strategic Culture Foundation, 02.04.2019 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)In the past few weeks, we have witnessed a mini ‘Belt & Road’ unfolding across the northern Middle East – linking Iran to Iraq, to Syria, and to Lebanon – a ‘Belt and Road’ that, it is envisaged, ultimately will be assimilated into China’s greater...
Aung San Suu Kyi Is A Politician, Not A Monster
Artículo Foreign Policy, 14.05.2018 Peter A. Coclanis, historiador, profesor y director del Global Research Institute (U. de NC-Chapel Hill)
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Western liberals projected their own hopes onto "the Lady" — and then blamed her for not living up to them
Volunteers take down posters of Aung San Suu Kyi... Brzezinski’s Ghost Shapes Washington Eurasia Geopolitics
Artículo New Eastern Outlook, 15.05.2018 William EngdahlOne of the most outstanding features of a truly standing-out Trump Presidency to date is how precisely the actual policy developments, when we clear away the deliberate smoke and mirrors of tweets and scandal, follow a basic strategy of Washington geopolitics going back to at least 1992. This is the case...
Will Shashi Tharoor’s Recommendations Reform the MEA for the Better?
Columna The Wire, 25.10.2017 Kishan S. Rana, ex embajador indio y académico del Institute of Chinese Studies-Nueva Delhi
Examining the three measures Tharoor suggested, and others which are debated frequently, aimed at improving India’s foreign policy and its delivery
Congress member of parliament Shashi Tharoor, a former United Nations undersecretary general and a former minister of state in the...Aung San Suu Kyi: la ‘dama’ ciega
Perfil El Periódico, 02.12.2017 Rosa Massagué
La expulsión de los rohinyá ha minado la autoridad moral de la política y activista birmana
El comité del Premio Nobel de la Paz otorgó dicho galardón a Aung San Suu Kyi por su lucha no violenta a favor de la democracia y los derechos humanos y por ser un símbolo contra la opresión. Así el comité...China’s New Emperor
Columna Project-Syndicate, 25.10.2017 Chris Patten, ex governador de Hong Kong, ex comisionado de la UE para asuntos externos y Canciller (U. de Oxford)In another country, Chinese President Xi Jinping's concentration of power might trigger accusations of latter-day totalitarianism. In China, however, Xi's behavior has drawn praise from observers who believe that he is leading the way to...
¿El ‘Pinochet birmano’? El mundo señala a este general para detener la limpieza étnica
Reportaje El Confidencial, 25.10.2017 Laura Villadiego
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El jefe del Estado Mayor de Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing, es el verdadero responsable de la actuación del ejército del país, el Tatmadaw, contra la minoría rohingyá. El foco está ahora puesto en él
El general Min Aung Hlaing participa en... Xi Jinping’s thinking is ranked alongside Mao’s
Editorial The Economist, 24.10.2017
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Does this mean no one can challenge him?
The constitution of the Chinese Communist Party defines what it means to be a party member and lists the organisation’s core beliefs. On October 24th a new principle was added to it: “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with... The North Korean Cult
Columna Project-Syndicate, 09.10.2017 Ian Buruma, historiador y editor del The New York Review of Books
It is possible that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, and perhaps even some subjects of his despotic rule, would rather be obliterated than give in. It would not be the first time that a quasi-religious movement turned...