Columna Project-Syndicate, 10.05.2016 Mia Jian, escritor chinoFifty years ago this month, Mao Zedong launched China’s Cultural Revolution – a decade of chaos, persecution, and violence, carried out in the name of ideology and in the interest of expanding Mao’s personal power. Yet, instead of reflecting on that episode’s destructive legacy, the Chinese government is limiting all discussion...
Who Is Xi?
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Xi Jinping[/caption]
More than halfway through his five-year term as president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party—expected to be the first of at least two—Xi Jinping’s widening... Culte de la personnalité : Xi Jinping veut-il devenir le Mao Zedong du XXIe siècle ?
Opinión Reinformation.TV, 04.04.2016 Anne Dolhein[caption id="attachment_26103" align="alignnone" width="891"]
Image du Président Xi Jinping affichée sur un grand écran, lors d’un défilé... Obama en Cuba: Pavimentando las calles de La Habana
Columna OpinionGlobal, 01.04.2016 Enrique Subercaseaux, ex diplomático y gestor culturalDe las muchas imágenes de la reciente visita del Presidente Obama a Cuba, me quedo con el puñado de calles que fueron repavimentadas para hacerlas más transitables para la nutrida comitiva de Estados Unidos. La población celebro el hecho porque, todo hay que decirlo, la decrepitud de la...
La confusión de Estados Unidos en un mundo desordenado
Reseña de libro [Henry A Kissinger en Orden mundial. Debate, Barcelona 2016] Política Exterior, N*170 (marzo-abril 2016 Manuel Muñiz, director programa Relaciones Transatlánticas (U. de Harvard)¿Cuál será la forma y el contenido del orden mundial en el siglo XXI? El recorrido de Kissinger por 2.000 años de relaciones internacionales resulta demasiado rígido a la hora de alumbrar...
The Obama Doctrine
Reportaje The Atlantic, abril 2016 Jeffrey Goldberg
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The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
China’s Coming Ideological Wars
Artículo Foreign Policy, 01.03.2016 Taisu Zhang
In the reform era, economic growth reigned supreme. But now, a revival of competing beliefs has polarized Chinese society.
For most Chinese, the 1990s were a period of intense material pragmatism. Economic development was the paramount social and political concern, while the... Taiwan’s White Terror
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 28.02.2016 Thomas Vien and Evan Rees[caption id="attachment_22427" align="alignnone" width="921"]
Nationalist officials scuffle with a black market cigarette vendor — the event that sparked nationwide protests Feb. 28,... The China-North Korea Relationship
Artículo CFR Backgrounder, 08.02.2016 Eleanor Albert y Beina Xu[caption id="attachment_22009" align="alignnone" width="921"]
Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang. Photo: Kyodo/Reuters[/caption]
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China is North Korea’s most important ally,...Framing China’s Future (III): Imagining a Democratic China
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 02.12.2015Summary China's Communist Party is locked in a struggle for political legitimacy. For most of the past three decades, economic growth has buoyed the party and underwritten its promises of full employment and ever-improving material conditions for the majority of Chinese. But that growth is slowing. As the country's export- and investment-led growth model...