After many years away from home, the concept of hometown has become a distant and abstract for the Spanish Chinese diaspora. Confronting both their ever-changing hometown and their own evolving selves, the singular identity of being Chinese or an overseas Chinese no longer suffices to outline the experiences and narratives of those who have lived […]
Traducción: Isabel Gacho Carmona Washington.- The Hong Kong society has deep-rooted democratic principles that are proven by the struggle they have waged in recent days and their willingness to continue to fight to maintain the freedom they have enjoyed in recent years, which has allowed them to enjoy welfare and development outside the control imposed
(Traducción: Isabel Gacho Carmona) The rise of China is not only transforming the global balance of power. It is also a challenge to the liberal values that served as the basis for the international order still in force, created after the Second World War. China is a great defender of the Charter of the United
Washington.- The USA is living a heated political environment in its capital with the president’s stubbornness in moving forward until Congress approves the funds to build the wall on the border with Mexico. Meanwhile, at the international level, Washington has on the agenda a second historic meeting between Trump and Kim Jon-un, and that can
(Traducción: Isabel Gacho Carmona) Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan has caused an earthquake in the American political scene. It was due to the opposition from the political and military leadership, the White House presidential advisers, analysts and experts and the resignation of Jim Mattis, a general who had already been
Xavier Sala i Martín told me a few years ago that if the Chinese had told him in 1978 that «they thought to start up a capitalist system, but with limited property rights, I would have thrown them out of my office». At that time began to crystallize what John Williamson, a researcher at the
(Traducción: Isabel Gacho Carmona) Last week, for the first time in seven years, a Japanese Prime Minister paid a bilateral visit to China (in the multilateral arena, Abe attended the APEC summit in Beijing in 2014). And it is also expected that Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Japan next year. Do these meetings
The Chinese presence in any region of the planet is nowadays a fact. A report by the World Economic Forum states that China invested between 2003 and 2017 more than 110.00 million dollars in Latin America and the Caribbean, being the main trading partner of Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, and the second of Mexico.
During the colloquium that closed the event ¿Planeta China?, one of the attendees raised the question whether the Western criticisms of the People’s Republic were the result of envy, because they had found a more efficient regime than our democracies. The question reveals an admiration for the dictatorships that many naive people believed eradicated after
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