China has met largely these targets in the first third of the period monitored and has experimented since 2000 a growth of its GDP about 8 % en 2000, 7.5 % in 2001, 8 % in 2002 and 9.1 % in 2003, according with international data. Due to its large and stable population, its rapidly growing...

The bilateral relations between Portugal and China have been influenced by the regional bet of both nations: Portugal's full integration in the European Union; China's recent effort to further a economic integration of East Asia and South Asia around the concept of ASEAN Plus something. These...

Preserving the direction of the Chinese Communist Party after the death of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiao Ping has lead a process of economic and structural reforms that led China to open to the outside world and become one of the impelling forces of globalization. China's admission to the WTO, in 2001,...

The social policies directed at the labor market were established in the 50s and 60s on an environment of international economic stability and predictable growth. Then came the long oil crisis of the 70s and the world economy has entered into recession. Since then the European economy has...

The article looks at the EU and China three decades relationship and the challenges and opportunities encouraged by a common view on the redesign of the international order according to a shared multilateral approach although some basic differences still exist. China’s purpose to this...

The possible creation of an Asian Economic Zone has been debated quite often in the last years. This is not shared by countries specially attached to the strict dimension of national sovereignty. The worldly trends of globalization and interdependence turn it into an urgency as Asia is required...

This article looks at the history of Portugal's first Republic in the first decade of the 20th century. Macau was a very conservative society where the orientations of the colonial authorities in Lisbon were not welcome if they appeared to change the local balance of power that favoured the...

John Rawls has made an authorative contribution to contemporary political philosophy by enlightning the interactions between Justice, Law, Citizenship, Government by consent and, fundamentaly, the accountability required to rulers and governments. As a liberal John Rawls stress that in a...

Hong Kong and Macau have become in their retrun to Mainland China Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China. Their creation is based on the policy One Country, Two Systems lauched by China's former reformer leader Deng Xiao Ping aiming to ease the two century-old...

The article looks to the status of Portugal-China bilateral relations in the context of an enormous trade deficit, the fading of Portuguese economic interests in Macao and China, and the removal of China as a vector of Portugal foreign policy. The author stresses that the causes of the...