Capture time in the major powers

The decisions they make cause a global political, economic and financial jolt, and any relevant event in the world places them at a given moment as distrustful protagonists. The United States, Russia and China, incarnation of modern imperialism, are responsible for the formation of this world order in which they are masters and lords, even if, in the interior, they multiply their complications to maintain the balance of domestic politics.

In recent weeks, the world 's three largest economic and military powers have experienced a climate of internal turmoil of varying intensity and size, even though they reveal that their powerful leaders have great difficulty in decoding. the meaning of certain problems lead Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping to respond to these adversities without renouncing the old custom of imposing their own rules of the game to accumulate power.

The phenomenon of mbad immigration that Trump is waving as a dangerous ghost haunting the United States is joined by a society armed to the teeth that houses white supremacists like the one who committed a mbadacre there is a few days in El Paso. Although drowned by the economic boom of the country, the various sectors of the opposition are constantly redoubling the criticism against the current tenant of the White House.

Russia and China, for their part, are the scene of a succession of mbad demonstrations calling for democracy and respect for individual liberties. The governments' responses, so far, are inflexible.

United States, hostile land

Since the time of the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump has used the issue of illegal immigrants to seduce the conservative electorate. In this direction, the extravagant proposal to build a huge wall on the southern border, whose bill has little to pay the Mexican neighbors.

At the dawn of the new election campaign, the eccentric US president has ratified the centrality of this issue in his agenda, which is also critical for many of his constituents. But now the ideas are reloaded: in terms of raids and mbadive deportations have been added the attacks of the tycoon against members of the Congress Democrats of different races who openly denounce the "white nationalism" of Trump and are the main drivers of the implementation accusation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

In one of his tweeters in recent weeks, the president said: "The members of the Democratic Progressive Congress," originating from countries whose government is a total disaster, the most corrupt, and the most more inept of the world, tell him now how to govern the states. United, the largest and most powerful country in the world. Why do not they come back to repair the devastated and infested places of the crimes from which they come?

These uncontested concepts have been launched on the cities of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ayanna Presley, Rashida Tlaib and Ihlam Omar (of Puerto Rican, African-American, Palestinian and Somali origin). One detail: with the exception of Omar, Somali child arrived, the rest of the opposition activists were born in the United States.

The US president's speeches could remain anecdotal if it were not because they were launched in a context of xenophobic outbreaks, the most serious manifestation of which is the mbadacre perpetrated by Patrick Crusius in El Paso. This lone wolf, who surrendered without resistance to the police, wrote a manifesto stating that his attack was a response to "the Hispanic invasion of Texas" and guaranteed that "foreigners" were currently moving "Whites" of European origin ".

Although Trump has condemned this fact, Crusius' manifesto has nothing to envy to the xenophobic explosions of the American president himself. "Why do we have all these shitty people coming here?", "It's a country where we speak English, not Spanish" and "I would hate to shut down mosques in the United States, but that's something that should be seriously considered, "they are. some of the many expressions of this content that the magnate has uttered on Twitter and in television interviews in recent years.

Immigration is one of the central problems of American politics long before Trump's arrival. It turns out that the main planetary power has more immigrants than any other country.

The figures speak for themselves: according to the latest available data, nearly 50 million people living in the United States were born in another country, which represents more than 15% of their population. Another important fact is that one million new immigrants arrive each year (mainly from Mexico). According to the Pew Research Center (a non-profit organization that studies problems in the United States), there were 10, 7 million undocumented aliens.

Army company

A major problem of American society, which, in the time of Trump, is not part of the urgent issues, despite the succession of mbadacres that has struck the country, is the long idyll of armed Americans whenever there is a shooting causing several casualties, the controversy over the regulation of the sale of weapons resurfaces and angry demonstrations take place to demand that something be done to put an end to the murders, but invariably all Is nowhere.

The first thing to remember at this point is that the National Rifle Association (an organization that defends the right to possession of weapons founded in 1871) is a powerful entity that funds the campaigns of members of Congress and that even Trump has received, 2016 , $ 30 million for his candidacy. The president even participated in the meetings of this group and declared himself the most powerful defender of the second constitutional amendment, which protects the right of citizens to bear arms.

Russia: controlled democracy

The positive image of Putin has fallen from 80 to 60% recently. However, this level of popularity is extremely high given that the Russian president has concentrated all his power for two decades.

For the European media, Russian politics is expressed in the form of a "controlled democracy". Presidential power lacks counterbalance and the elections are not very competitive, as the Kremlin was responsible for minimizing the forces of the opposition.

But, beyond the high concentration of power in the hands of Putin, the Russian economy began to crack following an accumulation of imbalances that have well-known effects in the extreme south of Latin America: inflation, lower wages and higher rates. public services. The end of the economic boom of gas and oil, pillars of power built by the former KGB during its first years in power, has accentuated the erosion caused by the perpetuation of power.

This breeding ground helped to revitalize key opposition leaders, whose government was responsible for the blockage, in the September municipal elections. By decision of the Electoral Commission, several candidates having obtained the five thousand signatures required to present themselves were excluded on the pretext that the headings were not clear or that the addresses were incomplete.

Municipalities are the prelude to the 2021 legislative elections, which imply a loss of support for Putin. In this context, the demand for free elections is the trigger for street protests in Moscow, which the government normally prefers to respond firmly.

The arbitrary application of Russian electoral legislation is another feature of what many badysts without half-measures consider a true autocracy. This characteristic seems to accentuate with the economic deterioration that surrounds the test at the polls.

Another fact that has warmed the environment in recent weeks is the suspicious situation of Alexei Navalny, one of Putin's most prominent critics. The opposition activist, who made himself known through a blog on which he had started in 2008 to denounce acts of corruption in the state's orbit, was jailed on several occasions for his political activities and could have been attacked on that occasion with a toxic agent.

The risk run by Navalny is not new to the Russians who decide to face the Kremlin openly. Several opponents have died in recent years under suspicious circumstances.

Putin's term ends in 2024, but it is suspected that his term will not end there. To perpetuate itself, it can appeal to three alternatives: a constitutional reform allowing it to be reelected, the creation of a post to keep the reins of the Kremlin or appoint a hardcore who can handle easily.

Rebellion in Hong Kong

It all began when the Hong Kong government, led by Carrie Lam, launched a bill in February authorizing the Chinese government, controlled by the Communist Party, to extradite people accused of committing crimes. Residents of the former British colony, who are wary of the prochino bias of the head of the administration, believe that Beijing would be able to detain political dissidents in Hong Kong territory to try them on false accusations according to the rules of the communist regime.

This is the origin of the mobilizations that resulted in pbadages with the police. Although Lam decided to freeze the project, he gave no sign of abandoning it altogether and the conflict grew in scale.

Since 1 July 1997, the United Kingdom has transferred Hong Kong's sovereignty to China. After 156 years of colonialism, the doctrine of "one country, two systems" elaborated by Den Xiaoping with the initially fixed eye was established. in Taiwan Tel was the mainstay of the Basic Law agreed in the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, which granted in 2047 a differentiated status to the inhabitants of one of the largest financial centers of the world.

But the people of Hong Kong are concerned about the progress of the regime's interference. In 2014, an amendment to the electoral law established universal suffrage for the election of the authorities of the enclave, although the candidates must be approved by Beijing. This provoked a wave of demonstrations which in history has been called a "revolutionary revolution".

Now, Xi Jinping is facing the new challenge posed by the inhabitants of the excolonia. The fear of the regime that citizens of the rest of the country are contaminated by claims of freedom, now that they enjoy the sophistication of capitalism, could lead the Chinese leader to choose an exemplary measure to the Tiananmen.

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