Centenario del partido

The chapter on China and Hong Kong during 2021 covers only some aspects of what happened inside their borders or that affected them. The text’s focus is on the main event of the year: the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This occasion provided a platform for speeches and initiatives by China’s ruling political elite: hundreds of events celebrated the founding of the party and the liberation of Meng Wuanzhou in Canada, not to mention each of the speeches by Xi Jinping, president and general secretary of the CCP. The text also briefly describes the crisis of a real state giant and that of power generation —issues that are framed within the forecasts that were publicly presented about events that could have arisen. The article examines different aspects of China’s international relations with some countries in the Americas, including Canada, the United States, and Mexico, as well as some in South America including Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador. Given the current context, significant attention is paid to relations with Australia and the changes taking place in the region’s status quo. Demography is also a key topic of the text, which presents an analysis of the 2020 census whose results were released in 2021. Other areas under discussion include the world of labor, cinema, and politics in the fashion industry. In the case of Hong Kong, the consequences of the National Security Law and the approval of the reforms to the electoral law, as well as the economic proposals to put this special administrative region on a firm footing, are examined

China · Humanities · Political science · Aging, Health, and Disability · Philosophy