China en "Foreign Affairs"

El último número de la revista "Foreign Affairs"que llegó hasta mi casa trata en especial el tema China. Tiene unos artículos increíbles. Transcribo un párrafo del primero de ellos, de Zheng Bijian, llamado con cierta poesía "China's "Peaceful Rise" to Great-Power Status":

Since starting to open up and reform its economy in 1978, China has averaged 9.4 percent annual GDP growth, one of the highest growth rates in the world. In 1978, it accounted for less than one percent of the world economy, and its total foreign trade was worth $20.6 billion. Today, it accounts for four percent of the world economy and has foreign trade worth $851 billion -- the third-largest national total in the world. China has also attracted hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investment and more than a trillion dollars of domestic nonpublic investment. A dozen years ago, China barely had mobile telecommunications services. Now it claims more than 300 million mobile-phone subscribers, more than any other nation. As of June 2004, nearly 100 million people there had access to the Internet.

Y ni hablemos de "China's Global Hunt for Energy", el artículo que le sigue, de Zweig & Jianjai, cuyo primer párrafo es este:

An unprecedented need for resources is now driving China's foreign policy. A booming domestic economy, rapid urbanization, increased export processing, and the Chinese people's voracious appetite for cars are increasing the country's demand for oil and natural gas, industrial and construction materials, foreign capital and technology. Twenty years ago, China was East Asia's largest oil exporter. Now it is the world's second-largest importer; last year, it alone accounted for 31 percent of global growth in oil demand. Now that China is the workshop of the world, its hunger for electricity and industrial resources has soared.



Las fotos las saqué de un blog que Julián Gallo recomienda en su genial Blog, pero no puedo reconstruir cómo dí con ellas. Son de un fotógrafo que se dedica a captar detalles de la nueva China.