The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China, held last October, set the stage for Xi Jinping's recent National Assembly to become "sine die" an all-powerful and aggressive ruler, who will carry and put into effect the message of no longer being the victim of US oppression after decades of decadence, humiliation and rudeness on the part of neighbouring or Western powers, and mainly by the latter.Ĭhina has spent years occupying and militarising natural or artificial islets in the South China Sea so that it can create a buffer zone around its natural territory by the sea it has established itself as an economic partner of Russia and, in fact, is largely saving it from the international restrictions mounted against Putin by the US and the EU as a result of the invasion of Ukraine and it has become the main investor and buyer of all kinds of products in Africa and is beginning to do so in South America. This is the case of China which, following the precepts set by Deng Xiaoping, has remained for decades in a conciliatory tone with its neighbours while growing in the two powers that make a nation strong, respectable and powerful: significant social and economic development and the combat and projection capacity of its armed forces. After almost a hundred years under the whims and baton of the United States and Russia in the international arena with regard to the guardianship of conflicts and the promotion of alliances based on their influence, the mediating or hegemonic role of both blocs, in their case, has been diminishing to the point of disappearing in some areas such as the Middle East, and has been moving to new geostrategic scenarios to adapt to other threats.īut, as happens with almost everything in life, the vacuum of power or permanence left by one body, gas, liquid or entity is immediately occupied by another similar one that is growing, expanding or believes that the time has come to change its role and so, with it, they go from dominated to dominator, or at least to moderator or shaper.
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