Asia – World map

18Apr

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

Asia, China

Hot weather in the South China Sea

The international press reported the expansion, from yesterday, 11/04, US Armed Forces Exercises in the Philippines. According to Estadão, these would be “the largest war maneuvers in the history of the Indo-Pacific region”, gathering more than 17 thousand soldiers, and military observers from Japan and Australia off the Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea. The objective would be to monitor the clashes that are being sharpened there, especially in view of the alleged Chinese invasion in the region.. The good relationship of the current Philippine President, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. - son of Ferdinand Marcos who dominated Philippine political life throughout the second half of the 20th century - with the americans, provided the initiative. Only... these islands are, along with the islands ...

3Mar

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

Asia, India

India at the crossroads

The recent article by Estadão “China, India and the New World Order”, sets the tone for these reflections of mine: the call states that “the competition between a powerful China, but in population decline and an India on the rise but with serious delays to overcome, impact the economic and geopolitical order.”. thought provoking, sim, but obvious?...It is comforting to have lived a long time to be able to calmly reflect on the impermanence and transience of world power.. When I was born, in June 1945, the planetary “hegemon” was... Great Britain (“the sun never sets on the British Empire”, even in Africa?)! But at that very moment Europe, torn apart by World War II, reluctantly began the deconstruction of the colonial empire that had made its fortune throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. At...

Japan: excuse me, the robot will pass...

23Feb

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

Asia, Japan

Japan: excuse me, the robot will pass...

Photo: private collection Fausto Godoy O Estadão recently published an article entitled “Japan invests in “nice” robots to make deliveries”, referring to a traffic law that comes into force in April of this year authorizing the circulation of autonomous “delivery” robots,. Its creators, the robotics company ZMP, are confident that they will help, for example, in the provision of services to the elderly, especially in sparsely populated rural areas. They warn that they will be monitored by remote control and by people who can intervene if necessary. The ZMP considered it important that they be “humble and charming, to inspire confidence”.. The company has already gone out into the field and partnered with business giants, como a “Japan Post Holdings”, who will test these robots in Tokyo...

7Feb

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Asia, China

China's Dilemma

The population of the People's Republic of China has decreased by 2022 for 1,411 billion, a fall of about 850.000 people compared to the previous year, announced the “China National Bureau of Statistics”/NBS during a briefing on the last day 19/01. The last time something like this happened was in the 1960s., when Mao Zedong's disastrous policy of imposing forced industrialization on the country through the "Great Leap Forward/Forward" policy, between 1958 and 1960, with the intention of transforming the People's Republic into a developed and socially egalitarian nation in record time, through forced land reform and urban industrialization, mainly in the steel industry, had the disastrous consequence of m...

6Feb

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Asia, India

On the Constitution of India

In day 26 Last January, India celebrated “Republic Day”/ “Repubic Day”, date on which its Constitution entered into force, in 26 January 1950, replacing “The Government of India Act”/ “The Government of India Act 1935”, which had been enacted by the British Raj as the foundation document of State. The document entered into force on 26 January 1950. Through it the nation became an autonomous republic.. India had achieved independence in 15 August 1947, after a long and traumatic period of resistance and militancy, which had Mahatma Gandhi at the epicenter of its leadership, along with other great characters in the country's modern history. It was formalized through the “India Independence Act 1947”, enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom..

3Nov

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Asia, China

Xi and Heaven's Mandate

What even the gravels on the way knew: in day 23 Of this month, around them 2000 representatives two 96,7 million members of the Chinese Communist Party (PCC) reappointed the General Secretary and President of the Party, Xi Jinping, for another five-year term. at your end, he will have served fifteen years in the absolute power of the Party...and the People's Republic of China. Previously, only Mao Zedong had such a leading role in the lives of the Chinese. Since then, the tradition had become the sharing of power between the political leadership, in unison. So it was in generations after him.: that of the “triumvirate” Jiang Zemin, Li Peng e Zhu Rongzhi, and his successors, Hu Jintao e Wen Jiabao. In these previous steps, leaders kept a low profile, avoiding the protagonism p...

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

19Oct

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Asia, China

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP Started this past Sunday, 16 of October, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (PCC). It should outline China's general development goals by the year of 2035, according to a report previously sent to congressmen. These objectives were defined in the “14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Vision 2035 of the People's Republic of China", based on the proposals put forward by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, that aligned government strategies and priorities and guided market activities. According to this document, It is “a blueprint for China’s new journey towards a modern socialist country”., and a joint action plan for the Ch..

<a>Triangular relationship between the United States, Taiwan and China at the beginning of Joe Bidenas rule</a>

13Oct

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Americas, Asia, China, U.S

Triangular relationship between the United States, Taiwan and China at the beginning of Joe Biden's rule

Alison Cordeiro Sousa - Student of the International Relations course and Researcher at the Asian Business Studies Center (GIRL / ESPM) Republic of China (RDC) ou Taiwan, is an island located at 200 km from the People's Republic of China (RPC), with independent government and being recognized as a country by 20 nations in the world (BARBOSA, JUNIOR from SATUR, 2016). A RPC, watch the island, as a rebel province that is part of its territory, according to Ivanov (2022). Russia's occupation of Ukraine, in 24 February 2022, with tacit support from China to the Russian invasion, sustained in the international system, speculation about Beijing's intentions with Taiwan (YEUNG, GAN e JIANG, 2022). For example, Thaddeus (2022) states that China's abstention from voting in the Security Council of the Organizations of...

10Aug

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Americas, Asia, China, U.S

The lady's visit

The Speaker of the US House, Nancy Pelosi, walks alongside the Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, on a visit to the island's presidential headquarters, in Taipei, in 3 August 2022. - Photos: Taiwan Presidency via Associated Press Nancy Pelosi's Visit, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress to Taiwan, yesterday, 02/08, had the “merit” of garnering both President Joe Biden’s dissent and the opprobrium of the mainland Chinese.. Confronted with the “fait accompli”, Biden limited himself to showing his opposition to the initiative and claiming, as justification, the independence of the legislature in the American constitutional order. Beijing, From you, this time the europeans, considered the visit a “military provocation”. Fighter planes were deployed to the Taiwan Strait...

1Aug

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Asia, India

Drupadi Murmu, India's new president

Drupadi Murmu, India's new president, meeting before the presidential elections, em Ahmedabad, India Image: Amit Dave/Reuters not last day 18 July, a woman and member of a minority - the so-called “scheduled tribes” (“designated tribes”) -, Drupadi Murmu, won the presidential election in India. She is a tribal leader and member of the political party “Bharatiya Janata Party”/BJP, currently in power. Thus, became the(a) 15the country's president and, with 64 years, the youngest. She will also be the first person from the tribal minority to take office.. In day 25/07 Droupadi-ji took the solemn oath and was sworn in. Previously, she had been governor of Jharkhand State, on the east coast of the country, of 2015 a 2021. Now succeeds Ram Nath Kovind in the presidency, same...