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world water reserves: the challenge between solution and domination

18Jul

By Rodrigo CintraNo Comments

Americas, Asia, Canada, China, U.S, International Organizations, European Union

world water reserves: the challenge between solution and domination

Proper management of water resources is a global challenge due to increasing water scarcity in many regions of the world.. In an effort to address this critical issue, some countries like Canada, China, United States and the members of the European Union have sought to create supranational rules for the management of water reserves. The creation of supranational rules is understood as a strategy to face the question insofar as it allows: International cooperation: Water is a transboundary resource, and many river basins span multiple countries. The creation of supranational rules aims to promote cooperation between nations to face common challenges in the management of water reserves, like scarcity, pollution and equitable distribution of water resources..

7Jul

By Paulo Roberto da Silva Gomes FilhoNo Comments

Americas, Asia, China, U.S, Europe, UK, Russia, Ukraine

500 days of war in ukraine

Today, complete each other 500 days since Russian troops crossed Ukrainian borders, in 24 February of last year, in what they predicted would be a fulminating military action, com a qual esperavam derrotar o exército ucraniano, retirando o presidente Zelensky do poder e substituindo-o por um governante “amigável” ao regime russo. A invasão russa é flagrantemente ilegal. Contraria, not minimum, três instrumentos do Direito Internacional dos quais o país é signatário. O primeiro é a Carta da ONU, especificamente o previsto no nº 4 do artigo 2º, que prevê que “os Membros (da him) deverão evitar em suas relações internacionais a ameaça ou o uso da força contra a integridade territorial ou a dependência política de qualquer Estado”. O segundo é o Memorando de Budapeste, of 1994, no qual...

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 ...

7Feb

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

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...

3Nov

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

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

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

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

By Center for Asian Studies and BusinessNo Comments

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

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

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...

18Jul

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

Africa, South Africa, Americas, Asia, Brazil, China, Europe, India, Russia

And the ship goes… o BRICS

The article entitled “Brics in a New Stage” deserves careful reflection., by Ambassador Rubens Barbosa, Presidents of China 17/07, in which he analyzes the 14th BRICS summit, realized in 23/ 24 of June, no virtual format, under the turn presidency of China. the theme of the meeting - “Promoting a High Quality Partnership and Ushering in a New Era for Global Development” - deals with the group's next actions at this particularly complex moment in which one of its members, hindering the respect for otherness so necessary for the coexistence between nations, promotes a war against Ukraine, that has, in its turn, as a background, the threat that Moscow understands to suffer from the West against the “status quo” of the region that was part of the Soviet “empire”. As pointed out by Ambassador, “the meeting sought to increase the partnership between the group and the...

co-productions: strategy to strengthen the Chinese film market

1Jul

By Center for Asian Studies and BusinessNo Comments

Asia, China

co-productions: strategy to strengthen the Chinese film market

AP Photo/Andy Wong Article written by Julia Nascimento Aguilar* and Natália Yuri Kitayama* "We must improve culture as part of our country's soft power to better guarantee the people's basic cultural rights and interests.”. This sentence was part of former President Hu Jintao's speech (2017) of the People's Republic of China, before the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (PCC) — which has been adopting the strategy of strengthening Chinese soft power to increase the presence of its State in the international system (BECARD; SON, 2019). As part of the cultural promotion strategy, started in the 1990s 1970, the CCP undertook three waves of cultural reforms. the Russians laid out their demands in a document containing a proposed treaty on “security guarantees”, of 1978 a 1997, led by Deng Xiaoping, started the process of opening the market and ref...