Artículo World Politics Review, 27.06.2022 James Bosworth, fundador de Hxagon (firma de análisis de riesgo político)In 2022, it’s easy to be an opposition politician, party or political movement in Latin American democracies, where the political environment is about as anti-incumbent as it can get. Including the victory by Gustavo Petro in Colombia earlier this month, the...
The European Union Is Turning on China
Artículo Foreign Policy, 23.06.2022 Elettra Ardissino (analista de Greenmantle) y Eyck Freymann (director de Indo-Pacifico en Greenmantle)
Ukraine might be the last nail in the coffin for a friendly relationship.
Brussels is irate at Beijing’s refusal to condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine. In the early days of the war, EU officials hoped that China would try to broker a...China is hardening itself for economic war
Artículo Foreign Policy, 16.06.2022 Zongyuan Zoe Liu, académico de economía política internacional (Council on Foreign Relations)
Beijing is trying to close economic vulnerabilities out of fear of US containment
Chinese policymakers are increasingly convinced that the United States is determined to implement a full-fledged strategy of containment against China. Beijing views the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity as...La naturaleza del presidente
Columna El Mercurio, 09.06.2022 José Ramón Valente, economista, consultor y exministro de EconomíaEn 2018 y 2019, desde el Ministerio de Economía, impulsamos una agenda para aumentar la inversión y mejorar la productividad. Creamos las oficinas GPS y OPEN para que se dedicaran exclusivamente a proponer y ejecutar mejoras regulatorias, legales y de gestión para producir una...
How Xi Jinping is damaging China’s economy
Editorial The Economist, 26.05.2022Inflexible policies are trumping pragmatism Over the past 20 years China has been the biggest and most reliable source of growth in the world economy. It contributed a quarter of the rise in global gdp over that period and expanded in 79 of 80 quarters. For most of the period since China opened...
La encrucijada colombiana
Columna El Líbero, 28.05.2022 Carlos Alberto Montaner, periodista y escritor cubano
Hay que decirles a los colombianos que por el camino elegido por Petro no hay redención posible, salvo emigraLeo en una investigación sobre Colombia que la pobreza y la falta de oportunidades aumentan las posibilidades de Petro entre los jóvenes. Hay que decirles a los colombianos...
Is Biden Missing a Chance to Engage China?
Artículo Foreign Policy, 23.05.2022 Michael Hirsh, corresponsal
Appalled by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine debacle, Beijing could be open to a new U.S. approachNo one has to be more dismayed by Russian President Vladimir Putin's incompetence on the global stage than Chinese President Xi Jinping, his once-devoted partner. Publicly, Xi is sticking by Putin, and Chinese state...
Democracias en peligro de extinción
Columna La Nación, 16.05.2022 Moisés Naím, exministro venezolano y ex editor de Foreign PolicyEn la década pasada proliferaron los eventos que cambiaron al mundo. Algunos fueron imposibles de ignorar, pero hubo otros, más graduales, que pasaron casi desapercibidos. Entre ellos el más importante: la crisis global de la democracia. En todos los continentes las democracias se...
Boric’s Outreach to Chile’s Mapuche Has Hit Some Roadblocks
Columna Word Politics Review, 09.05.2022 José Aylwin, profesor adjunto (Escuela de Derecho-U. Austral de Chile)Chile’s recently inaugurated president, Gabriel Boric, campaigned on a platform emphasizing urgent reforms to shore up social rights in Chile, particularly health care, education and pensions, all of which were a focus of the protests that erupted across the country in October...
The West Should Stay Focused on Geoeconomic Rivalry With China
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...