XI has a book for Pedro | Opinion
The motto of Spanish Channel of China Global Television Network (CGTN) is « a bridge between both cultures », a concentrate of the kind face of philosophy through which the country wants to present the world. On Monday, a announcer of this official chain – apparently of flesh and blood, but so hieratic that it seems created by artificial intelligence – gave a traced news that could have been heard on some other occasion in recent months: a new edition of the book appeared entitled Chinese modernizationa thematic compilation of extracts from the speeches of the President of the Republic on this issue, which is nuclear in your speech. If previously published in Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic and Japanese, now in the days prior to President Pedro Sánchez’s third visit to Beijing, The Spanish edition arrived. The news bounced with absolute asepsis and with the same words by the hundreds of dictatorship channels, including the Chinese embassy in Spain. It is published by the Institute of History and Literature of the Party, whose mission is “introducing XI JINPING thought about socialism with Chinese peculiarities of the new era ”.
I don’t know if on Friday XI gave Pedro a copy at the guest house, but the message that official media wanted to convey from the meeting fits with the spirit of Chinese modernization adapted to the coordinates of The tariff war. The CGTN summary is almost bucolic. The windows of the room show a leafy garden, behind both presidents there is a bonsai, music suffers from hyperglycemia and one hopes that a panda bear appears suddenly and embraces our Minister of Agriculture. The speech of an elegant and slow XI is the classic: « At present, the world is going through a centenary transformation with multiple risks and challenges that overlap each other. Only through solidarity and collaboration can mainly maintain world peace and stability and promote global development and prosperity. » Then the camera makes a Zoom to the flags of China and Spain. The Editorial of the Officer Global Times It was on the same line: « The positive signals transmitted by Sánchez’s visit to China demand that more people with related ideas join to support multilateralism and open cooperation. »
Do not look for the word democracy. It is not on the horizon of expectations to boost a regime of freedom. Nor in the core of Chinese modernization. In the press release, when the Spanish edition of the essay is announced less than a week, the intoxicating and disturbing perfume is summarized that the book intends to convey: “Promote a common understanding of the need to improve international collaboration in the search for a global modernization characterized by peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation and shared prosperity”. How to say no to that well -intentioned proposal of modernization when The White House breaks with multilateralism intimidating? But saying does imply accepting an authoritarian alternative to a principle that for Westerners had been essential when building their modern states: the association between modernization and democratization. This association is challenged by XI’s action with this philosophy: « Although the capitalist system and western modernization models continue to evolve, their inherent nature of prioritizing capital, the law of the jungle, polarization and hegemonic power remains unchanged, and their deficiencies are increasingly evident. » Responding to that diagnosis would be our great leap.
