Artículo World Politics Review, 04.05.2022 Peter S. Rashish, director de programa y académico (Johns Hopkins University)As China leveraged its state capitalist model to become a global superpower, it increasingly challenged the market-oriented basis of the liberal economic order founded by the United States and its allies 75 years ago. When this competition between the Chinese and...
Xi Jinping Is Fighting a War for China’s History
Artículo Foreign Policy, 01.05.2022 Katie Stallard, editora de la revista New Statesman
Fear of “historical nihilism” has haunted China’s leadership for yearsChina’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin strode out to the Gate of Heavenly Peace in the center of Beijing. The sky overhead was perfectly blue. The crowds waved their red flags in perfect unison. This...
Nicaragua: aquí hay chino encerrado
Columna El Líbero, 30.04.2022 Carlos Alberto Montaner, periodista y escritor cubano residente en Miami
Alguien tiene que decirle a China o a Rusia que no pueden continuar alentando el desorden antidemocrático sin sufrir sanciones institucionales y personales.El matrimonio que dirige Nicaragua con mano de hierro tiene fama de no ser inteligente, pero sí muy astuto. No es...
La creciente influencia china en Chile
Columna El Mercurio, 29.04.2022 Juan C. Portales (IDD) y Sascha Hannig (IDD - Institute for Global Governance Research Hitotsubashi University)La idea de poder blando o soft power, término acuñado por el cientista político norteamericano Joseph Nye a fines de los 90, se ha vuelto una prioridad para las potencias internacionales y gobiernos con un alto capital cultural....
Central Asia Is Keeping a Nervous Eye on Russia’s War in Ukraine
Artículo World Politics Review, 26.04.2022 Jeffrey Mankoff, académico (Institute for National Strategic Studies-U.S. National Defense University)Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is upending the geopolitical calculations of states around the world. The fallout is especially complex for the post-Soviet states of Central Asia, which maintain extensive economic, political, cultural and other ties to both Russia and Ukraine. While...
Why the world isn’t really united against Russia
Artículo Foreign Policy, 20.04.2022 Howard W French, columnista y profesor (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism)
Global institutions have long relegated much of the world to second-class statusAs Russian President Vladimir Putin's army reduced one Ukrainian city after another to rubble, crushing civilians caught in apartment blocks and shopping malls under a rain of artillery and missile...
China y Rusia exponen las debilidades del autoritarismo
Columna The New York Times, 19.04.2022 Thomas L. Friedman, columnistaLa década pasada lucía bien para los regímenes autoritarios y desafiante para los democráticos. Las ciber herramientas, los drones, la tecnología de reconocimiento facial y las redes sociales parecían hacer que los líderes autoritarios eficientes fueran aún más eficientes y las democracias, cada vez más ingobernables. El...
China Has Ditched Its Own Principles to Back Russia
Artículo Foreign Policy, 08.04.2022 Julian Ku, profesor de Derecho (Hofstra University-New York)“China always opposes the use of force in international relations”. This boilerplate statement, frequently repeated by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reflects Beijing’s long-standing, publicly stated opposition to the use of military force outside the limitations imposed by Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter. It...
China’s plans for the Pacific do not stop with Solomons
Columna The Sydney Morning Herald, 25.04.2022 Ian Kemish, exdiplomático (Alto Comisionado en PNG) y académico australiano (U. de Queensland)The signing of a security agreement between China and Solomon Islands should be seen as what it is: a significant tactical win for Beijing in an ongoing competition for strategic influence in the Pacific. The contest has a long...
Why Xi Is Trapped in Ukraine
Artículo Foreign Policy, 26.04.2022 Craig Singleton, académico (Foundation for Defense of Democracies) y exdiplomático norteamericano
Now, it is Russia, not China, sitting in the geopolitical driver’s seatAmong the Ukraine war’s surprising geopolitical takeaways—such as Russia’s military ineptness and the transatlantic alliance’s unexpected resilience—is that China is not yet a great power. Beijing has proven incapable of influencing...