Will China promote autocracy?
A lot has been written about the West’s attempts to promote democracy during and since the end of the Cold War. Many leaders in democratic countries seek to put pressure on autocratic regimes (with...
View ArticleCan Xi be the new Deng?
Xi Jinping, China’s perennially grinning leader, is fully aware that the world’s largest economy in waiting has to leave Deng’s model of cheap labor, capital and focus on export markets behind....
View ArticleTransição da hegemonia mundial dos EUA para China já começou, destaca professor
http://www.infomoney.com.br/mercados/noticia/3199077/transicao-hegemonia-mundial-dos-eua-para-china-comecou-destaca-professor Por Lara Rizério | 15h26 | 24-02-2014 SÃO PAULO - Muito se fala sobre a...
View ArticleWhy China will back Russia on Ukraine
The possibility of excluding Russia from the G8 is currently being discussed, among Western powers, as a low-cost yet highly symbolic move to isolate and punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine....
View ArticleSupremacia militar norte-americana versus liderança econômica chinesa
http://www.brasilpost.com.br/oliver-stuenkel/supremacia-militar-americana-versus-lideranca-chinesa_b_5256745.html Em algum momento da segunda metade do século 19, os Estados Unidos tornaram-se a maior...
View ArticleThe US Should Celebrate Its Decline
http://thediplomat.com/2014/06/the-us-should-celebrate-its-decline/ The Upside of Down argues that the U.S. is declining — and that’s a good thing, especially for Washington. By Oliver Stuenkel June...
View ArticleWhat do Chinese academics think about Brazil? Not much, apparently
"What does China think?", Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations asked in 2008 in his book with that same title. Clearly, the world was desperate to find out, and...
View ArticleChina’s parallel global order
Who was the greatest beneficiary of geopolitical events in 2014? While it will take time to grasp the consequences of the two key developments - the Ukrainian Crisis and the rise of ISIS in Iraq and...
View ArticleWill High Chinese Growth Continue?
Will China be able to maintain high growth over the coming decades? Fewer questions will have a greater impact on the future of global order. Continued Chinese growth around 6% per year or more over...
View ArticleA ordem chinesa paralela
Quem foi o maior beneficiário dos eventos geopolíticos em 2014? Enquanto é cedo para compreender as consequências dos dois acontecimentos chave - a crise ucraniana e a ascensão do Estado Islâmico no...
View ArticleChina’s Silk Road Fund: Towards a Sinocentric Asia
An often overlooked commonality between BRICS countries is their contested claim for regional leadership. Indeed, the regional ambitions articulated -- at differing degree of specificity and coherence...
View ArticleResponsible Protection: Chinese norm entrepreneurship?
Liu Jieyi, Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the UN Review: Garwood-Gowers, Andrew (2014) China’s "Responsible Protection" concept : re-interpreting the Responsibility to...
View ArticleThe Concubine Who Launched Modern China
A photograph portrait Cixi sent to US President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, thanking him for his good wishes for her 70th birthday. ------------- Book review: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who...
View ArticleThe myth of inward-looking China
Book review: Restless Empire. China and the world since 1750. By Odd Arne Westad. Basic Books (2012), 528 pages. R$ 29,49 (ebook, www.amazon.com.br) China and its society of both past and present, Odd...
View ArticleShould China Care About Soft Power?
Book Review: Soft Power and US Foreign Policy. By Inderjeet Parmar and Michael Cox (eds.) London: Routledge (2010), 256 pages. R$ 124, 35 (ebook, www.amazon.com.br) A frequently discussed question in...
View ArticleChina’s Wild Hearts
Book review: Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China. By Evan Osnos. Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 417 pages. R$36,14 (ebook, www.amazon.com.br) China, like any other...
View ArticleThe US Should Celebrate Its Decline
http://thediplomat.com/2014/06/the-us-should-celebrate-its-decline/ The Upside of Down argues that the U.S. is declining — and that’s a good thing, especially for Washington. By Oliver Stuenkel June...
View ArticleThe Concubine Who Launched Modern China
A photograph portrait Cixi sent to US President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, thanking him for his good wishes for her 70th birthday. ------------- Book review: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who...
View ArticleWhy the Boao Forum matters
On March 26, the 2015 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) will welcome policy makers, business leaders and journalists from around the world to Hainan Province. Modeled on the World Economic Forum (WEF) in...
View ArticleHow the Chinese-financed Nicaragua Canal would change regional dynamics
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and Wang Jing, president of HKND, the Chinese company that promises to build the Nicaragua Canal ------------------- Whoever possesses the passage between the two...
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