{"id":20304,"date":"2012-04-02T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/04\/20120402_longchin-2\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:39:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:39:32","slug":"20120402_longchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2012\/04\/20120402_longchin\/","title":{"rendered":"LONGITUDE: China at a crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The announcement of a drop in a growth rate that, nevertheless, remains high and that ensures China will, in any case, maintain major global positions, is under the spotlight of this issue of \u201cLongitude\u201d, the magazine directed by Pialuisa Bianco and available at newsstands as of 4 April, whose analysts examine the causes and effects of the \u201cphenomenon\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>How many and what are the \u201csituations\u201d created by Germany, also within the European context, for which it is almost impossible not to say they\u2019re right, and what is the future of \u201cintelligence\u201d \u2013 the issue\u2019s other two cover stories. An editorial by Minister Giulio Terzi examines transatlantic relations, particularly between Europe and the United States, in \u201ctimes of economic crisis\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Transatlantic relations and new emergencies<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Politicians, economists and diplomats, Terzi writes, argue about whether to \u201credefine\u201d some \u201cconcepts\u201d that form the foundation of \u201ctransatlantic relations\u201d in the wake of the economic crisis and \u201cnew emergencies\u201d. The minister\u2019s response contains the conviction that \u201ctransatlantic collaboration\u201d will continue to be a \u201cdriving force\u201d also for the \u201cglobal market\u201d, and that the close relations between Europe and the United States will continue to \u201cconsist of common values\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>China<\/STRONG><STRONG> at a new crossroads<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>In her editorial, Managing Editor Pialuisa Bianco explains why China has come to a crossroads, while a series of other articles look into the nature of the country\u2019s growth as well as its prospects. The announced plan for economic reforms and liberalization should be useful in \u201cconfronting\u201d the partly physiological \u201cgrowth contraction\u201d, to \u201cweather the crisis\u201d and avoid getting involved as other major economies when they get to a \u201cturning point\u201d. A significant example of how China is dealing with the \u201ctransition\u201d is treated in the magazines inquest in the region of Kashgar, one of the last areas of the country under special statute, a former rural region now urbanized and turned into a pilot-area for the Chinese economic development system. But will the economic reform process have an influence on \u201cpolitical\u201d spheres? Reformers and conservatives currently co-exist in delicate equilibrium at China\u2019s political and economic summit. And, at least in the economic arena and in the society, that \u201cequilibrium\u201d translates into reforms executed with conservative methods. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>The articles and analyses on China are accompanied by maps showing income, social conditions and internal migration, which is another yardstick for measuring the country\u2019s economic growth.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>To complete the cover stories, some analyses concern the phenomenon of emigration in Europe: the number of foreigners in the various European countries and projections on what they will be 12 years from now; the phenomenon of shrinking farmland, which is going on especially in Africa; and a panorama of original photos of the society, customs and contradiction between \u201cmodernity\u201d and \u201ctradition\u201d in Iran.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The announcement of a drop in a growth rate that, nevertheless, remains high and that ensures China will, in any case, maintain major global positions, is under the spotlight of this issue of \u201cLongitude\u201d, the magazine directed by Pialuisa Bianco and available at newsstands as of 4 April, whose analysts examine the causes and effects [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-20304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-asia-e-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}