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Without regulation, digital platforms amplify conflicts and undermine freedom and democracy
The advocates of deregulation, led by the billionaire tech giants, spread the false idea that controlling social networks is censorship and use false concepts of freedom to increase their profits.
Narrative of the Chinese Civilizational State and Soft Power in the Digital Era
In 1874, senior Qing dynasty official Li Hongzhang warned of a “great transformation not seen in a thousand years,” referring to the disparity between China and the West and a grave survival crisis. Today, the international order and balance of power are rapidly evolving, placing the world at the brink of a transformation unprecedented in a century. The rise of emerging countries often triggers alert, skepticism, and even hostility from neighboring or dominant powers. In China’s case, its uniqueness in values, ideology, and institutional model has generated dissonance with external perceptions, intensifying discursive challenges tied to threat narratives. Shifts in the distribution of global power raise key questions about how states redefine their role in international governance. Emerging powers face not only material challenges but also symbolic ones: how can they narrate their rise without provoking alarm or misunderstanding? The cultural dimension of power plays a central role in legitimizing their place in the global order. Since its introduction in China in the 1990s, the theory of soft power has been reinterpreted by Chinese academia by integrating traditional cultural philosophy with contemporary theories of power, resulting in a unique conceptual framework adapted to the local context: “cultural soft power.” According...
In Peru, under every stone lies a political party
In the Andean country, a record level of party fragmentation has been made official: a total of 43 political parties have been authorized to run for the presidency in the upcoming elections.
