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On January 1, 2021, the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China came into force. We are facing a legal text that marks the future of the history of codification in this 21st century. A historical Code not because of the influence that its technique or text will have on other countries or territories, or because of the novelty that it implies in the Asian country which, as we will see, is scarce, but because of the moment in which it approves and because of the number of people to whom it is addressed. The first Civil Code of China was that of 1929-1930, divided into five Books: General Principles, Law of Obligations, Law of Assets, Family and Inheritance. The new Code has a total length of 1,260 articles, structured in seven Books and two "Supplementary Provisions". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the economic and political relations between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Colombia in the period 2010 - 2020. To this end, special emphasis will be placed on political-diplomatic relations and international negotiations, as well as foreign trade, investment and cooperation. Since the beginning of the 21st century, there is evidence of a strengthening of bilateral ties with a significant growth in the flows of goods between States since the beginning of the 21st century. This analysis seeks to focus on the chinese projection in Colombia and the role that the United States assumes in the South American country. The historical proximity of Colombia to the United States could explain the limited advances of China in Colombia. However, a greater diplomatic presence of China in this matter is witnessed, along with an intensification of commercial relations. As a result of the recognition of the peripheral nature that Colombia occupies in the international system, recent governments have resorted to the diversification of foreign relations as an insertion strategy to expand their margins of maneuver. It is concluded that, in certain areas, the United States has not been a constraint for this rapprochement, although relations have not deepened as expected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

So far in the 21st century, the international development aid and cooperation regime has seen an increase in initiatives carried out by different emerging powers and developing countries, focusing more and more around China, whose peculiar way of cooperating seems to guide the structural transformation of the global South. Therefore, in order to discuss these issues, this article analyzes and debates the literature that argues about the "model" of Chinese South-South cooperation, exploring its characteristics and the peculiar relations between China and developing countries, in the face of the crisis. of the traditional cooperation regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the rise of China and Brazil's inclusion in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the EU is no longer Brazil's main partner , and their power relations are now more horizontal. Even though they share the same values and beliefs, Brazil's and the EU's performance in global governance reveals as many similarities as it does differences. It is on this new base of relations that the EU-Brazil strategic association must be built. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China's impact on Latin America's trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China's growth in the last years implied a growing supply of exports to this market from most countries in the World, including that of Latin American countries; ii) at the aggregate level, there was no indication that Chinese exports to third markets were crowding out LAC exports to those countries; and Hi) a positive relationship between imports from China and exports to third markets was only found for the Southern Cone countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing pace of the People's Republic of China, which between the years 1999 and 2008 kept an average annual rate over 9%, has caused an increasing need of natural resources. Since 1993, when the country turns into a distinct oil importer, Beijing's worries regarding energetic dependence and supply instability deepened. In tune with the domestic energy context, Beijing starts to redefine its foreign policy strategies based on a new concept of energy security. The aim of this article is to analyze how this concept influences the contemporary Chinese foreign policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The object of this article consists of establishing the relation between competitiveness and economic policy in the case of the People's Republic of China in the period from 1948 to 2008. The hypothesis that is demonstrated throughout the presentation maintains that more than the macroeconomic stability, the economic growth is directly related to the type of economic policy that applies a nation, as it is the case of China. The historical antecedents (1948-1978), the economic policy in the days of the reform of the economy (1978-1998) and the present time in which the past and the present are crossed, constitute the huge landmarks of the work. The economic policy is analyzes in "sub political" such as the agriculturist, industrialist, prices, foreign trade, foreign affairs, fiscal, monetary, exchange and investment, competitiveness etc., taking the work to planes of better concretion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a result of going-global of China's economy, particularly its accession to the World Trade Organization, the Chinese intellectual property rights (IPR) regime has undergone a remarkable transformation. The IPR laws in principle provide for strong protection for IPRs. While IPR experts have been focusing on the enforcement of China's IPR laws and international IPR holders have spotted that Chinese IPR rules are often ignored in practice, they both ignore the political economy of the IPR in China. This paper argues that, as the patent law evidences, industrial policy, which aims at promoting economic development, is the logics behind the evolution of China's IPR regime. It further notices a phenomenon, i.e. the emergence of an IPR strategy, which also stems from the same logics. It is further noted that, while the ongoing phenomenon, might have a bearing on the IPR regime, the political economy will drive China's IPR regime forward to a state that the West is now championing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo se centra en la implementación de un programa nacional por el gobierno chino en 2001 para mejorar la condición económica de las regiones más pobres del país. Los diversos temas tratados incluyen la industrialización en el país, las políticas aplicadas por el bienestar de las comunidades desplazadas y el desarrollo de la política de desarrollo rural en la región.