29/06/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
China Looks Beyond Natural Resources in Latin America
China's expanding economic engagement with Latin America has been largely based on securing access to the continent's abundant natural resources. But despite the opportunities presented by the wave of Chinese capital, concerns have arisen over the asymmetric and one-dimensional nature of China's relations in the region, which generally conform to the classic center-periphery model. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's recent three-country tour of the continent was aimed at addressing these concerns, outlining a blueprint for how China's incoming leadership intends to deepen its international relations and consolidate recent economic foreign policy gains.
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29/06/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
China Looks Beyond Natural Resources in Latin America
China's expanding economic engagement with Latin America has been largely based on securing access to the continent's abundant natural resources. But despite the opportunities presented by the wave of Chinese capital, concerns have arisen over the asymmetric and one-dimensional nature of China's relations in the region, which generally conform to the classic center-periphery model. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's recent three-country tour of the continent was aimed at addressing these concerns, outlining a blueprint for how China's incoming leadership intends to deepen its international relations and consolidate recent economic foreign policy gains.
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18/05/2011 | High Tech
In the Age of Connectedness, China Goes Solo
While cultural factors unquestionably shape China's global outlook, many of the most significant causes of China's disconnectedness are simply political power-plays by the state. In an era when the strategic value of connectedness is increasing, this approach will become more and more damaging to China's overall national interests in the modern economic and security environment.
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18/05/2011 | High Tech
In the Age of Connectedness, China Goes Solo
While cultural factors unquestionably shape China's global outlook, many of the most significant causes of China's disconnectedness are simply political power-plays by the state. In an era when the strategic value of connectedness is increasing, this approach will become more and more damaging to China's overall national interests in the modern economic and security environment.
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07/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
North Korea's Collapsing Economy Opens Door for Criminal Gangs
North Korea has long been an important link in East Asia's organized criminal networks. But recent reports suggest that, as the collapse of the country's planned economy continues, the scale of these activities may be expanding and the dynamics behind them changing.
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10/12/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
China's Faltering Cyber-Security Efforts Offer Chance for Engagement
While often portrayed as a major international cyber-security villain, the Chinese state is also facing its own grave online security problems.
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19/11/2010 | Frente Externo
China Chooses 'Mega-Events' Over Structural Reforms
The 16th Asian Games, now underway in Guangzhou, China, are the latest in a long line of massive, intensively promoted "mega-events" organized by the Chinese state to showcase national development and achievement.
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08/11/2010 | Frente Externo
Italy Offers China Strategic Bridge into Western Europe
Forty years after the establishment of modern diplomatic ties between Italy and China, Rome has become one of Beijing's most-trusted partners in Western Europe. Following recent high-level talks in both capitals, the two countries have enhanced cooperation in a range of areas. With China keen to increase its influence in the Eastern Mediterranean and Italy in desperate need of fresh economic impetus, the potential benefits to both sides could be significant.
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07/08/2010 | Economia y Finanzas
Structural Weaknesses Threaten China's 'Inevitable Rise'
Chinese companies operating abroad will have to significantly improve their operational standards, as many international partners are unlikely to tolerate for long the levels of regulatory abuse and environmental damage with which they operate at home.
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20/05/2010 | Frente Externo
China's Colonial Past Key to Understanding its Future
The current wave of restoration of historical sites across China, such as the reconstruction of the 14th-century city walls at Datong, is sometimes seen as evidence of the country's changing attitude towards its past: The destructive tendencies of the Mao years have been replaced by a new curiosity and respect for the Middle Kingdom's long history.
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