Sino-Algerian Strategic Cooperation:Towards a New Stage of Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850017
Author(s):  
Siham Matallah

Algeria strongly welcomed cooperation with China along with its search for an economic and political partner that respects Algeria’s sovereignty, ethnicity, religious, and cultural peculiarities, especially as Algeria suffered a bitter experience under the French colonial rule that deprived it of a window into global markets even after the achievement of independence, and China’s partnership seemed like an auspicious beginning for the Algerian economy. Indeed, China opened its arms to Algeria and became its largest trading partner, surpassing France that has traditionally been Algeria’s number one supplier. Both countries are committed to carrying forward their friendship in a spirit of equality and mutual respect, mutual trust, mutual benefit, and common gain. On the one hand, China attaches great importance to its bilateral relations with Algeria, which were raised to a comprehensive strategic partnership level in February 2014, and on the other hand, the Algerian government played a very important role in encouraging Chinese companies to invest in various fields, adding new depth to the Sino-Algerian relationship.

2019 ◽  
pp. 0143831X1988300
Author(s):  
Catherine Casey ◽  
Helen Delaney

The article discusses the enactment of a strategic partnership undertaken by a large, multi-site company and several trade unions. The enterprise aimed to institute highly engaged practices of employee and management voice to create a collaborative culture throughout the organization. The study finds that five years since the inception of the project of institutional change, considerable challenges to its embedding and effectiveness remain. It also finds that particular characteristics of the partnership propose resource generation for addressing those challenges and progressing collaborative relations to mutual benefit. Substantive actor effort and organizational learning generate capacity for new relationships. That includes activation of moral capital including toleration, patience, mutual respect, reciprocity and trust.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Mursid Zuhri

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari peran modal sossial pada aktivitas nelayan miskin, jaringan sosial masyarakat nelayan, kelembagan yang dibangun terutama kelembagaan ekonomi, serta menyusun gambaran model pengembangan kelembagaan untuk pemberdayaan nelayan miskin di Kabupaten Kebumen, Kabupaten Brebes, Kota Pekalongan, Kabupaten Batang dan Kabupaten Rembang. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian mixed method kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (a) Modal alam (natural capital) pada sebelas desa sampel berupa pesisir dan lautan, dan mayoritas penduduk berpendidikan formal Sekolah Dasar (SD) dan sebagian tidak tamat SD serta berpendapatan rendah. (b) Interaksi yang lancar didukung hubungan sosial berdasarkan ikatan ketetanggaan, kekerabatan, dan keagamaan (c) Desa yang memiliki modal sosial yang paling kuat adalah Desa Tasikagung, kemudian disusul Desa Klidang Lor Kota Pekalongan, Celong Kedawung Kabupaten Batang dan Pasir Kabupaten Kebumen. Pada masyarakat desa yang memiliki modal sosial yang relatif kuat maka tingkat kesejahteraaan masyarakat cenderung tinggi dan proses transformasi sosial-ekonominya berlangsung lebih cepat. (d) Implementasi program belum mampu menjangkau warga miskin, yang semakin tidak berdaya; tidak terjadi transfer daya, karena program lebih dimanfaatkan oleh golongan masyarakat yang lebih mampu dan berpengaruh; transfer daya hanya terjadi di tingkat kelembagaan lokal yang didominasi oleh kalangan dekat kekuasaan; dan relatif tidak terjadi proses belajar sosial, karena kegiatan program lebih bernuansa ekonomis. (e) Kekuatan budaya nonmaterial atau modal sosial menjadi faktor penting mengapa masyarakat di sebelas desa sampel hinga sekarang masih bisa bertahan. Makna terbentuknya rasa saling percaya (mutual trust) adalah hasil interaksi yang melibatkan (paling tidak antar tiga) anggota masyarakat dalam suatu kelompok ketetanggaan, asosiasi tingkat dukuh, organisasi tingkat desa, dan berkembangnya sistem jaringan sosial hingga melintasi batas desa. (f) Program pemberdayaan dipengaruhi oleh kekuatan modalsosial yang dibangkitkan oleh sejumlah tata nilai (komposit) yang membentuk jaringan mutual trust, mutual respect dan mutual benefit. Rekomendasi yang dapat diberikan : (a) penguatan modal sosial seperti rasa malu/harga diri, empati, kejujuran, amanah, altruism, bervisi ke depan dan rasional menjadi penting diperhatikan; sedangkan untuk penggerak kemajuan material adalah kerja keras dan rajin, hemat, gandrung inovasi, menghargai prestasi kerja, bervisi ke depan, dan rasional. b) pemberdayaan masyarakat pedesaan terutama warga nelayan miskin melalui penguatan modal sosialnya perlu diletakk an dalam kerangka transformasi atau pembangunan masyarakat pedesaan secara berkelanjutan (c) pengembangan wilayah pesisir harus memperhatikan hubungan sosial dalam masyarakat nelayan, agar tidak mengarah pada polarisasi sosial. (d) faktor kepemimpinan 122 Jurnal Litbang Provinsi Jawa Tengah, Volume 18 Nomor 1 – Juni 2020 desa, dan petugas penyuluh menjadi penting untuk keberlanjutan sebuah program pemberdayaan dalam memberikan pembinaan untuk usaha ekonomi produktif masyarakat nelayan baik berupa pembinaan teknis maupun manajemen usaha. (e) perlu “pembinaan” pasca program oleh instansiyang berkompeten; (f) perlunya pemberdayaan masyarakat miskin lewat peningkatan koordinasi antar lembaga penanggulangan kemiskinan.


China Report ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Xuan Cuong ◽  
Nguyen Thi Phuong Hoa

Since Vietnam and China normalised their ties in 1991, high-ranking leaders of the two countries have arrived at a common awareness on various issues with a view to promoting a relationship based on friendship, equality and mutual benefit. However, in reality, a big gap still exists between awareness and practice. There is a certain ‘phase deviation’, which leads to differences in assessment and approaches to the development of bilateral relations. Two-way trade has developed in a fast but imbalanced manner. China’s direct investments in Vietnam have not been on par with its potential. Many projects have been contracted, but a number of issues in terms of quality, technology and environmental protection have surfaced. Two out of three territorial and border issues have been settled, but the one concerning the Biển Ðông (the East Sea, or South China Sea) has become increasingly complicated. At present, the Vietnam–China relationship has entered a new phase of development with new requirements and demands as well as new opportunities and challenges.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Nur Rachmat Yuliantoro

The relations between two great nations, the United States and China, have attracted the attention of many. Different in several aspects, both countries face a number of challenges and problems in their relationship, ranging from misperception, mutual distrust, and the potential for conflict in the South China Sea as well as East China Sea. The leaders of both countries have difficult task to drive the bilateral relations positively for mutual benefit. This article demonstrates that while to some extent their differences are difficult to settle, they need to be put aside to build mutual trust as a basic ground for cooperation. Unfortunately, it seems that their relations in the future has still characterized, among others, by the absence of the will to understand each other.


2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Scioldo-Zürcher

The conception of historical time is currently undergoing a profound shift owing to recent innovations in communication technology. By becoming familiar to 21st-century man, the Internet has accompanied the assertion of ‘an era of memories’, which, since the beginning of the 1990s, has directly opposed the production of historical knowledge. The analysis and mapping of websites of repatriates from territories formerly under French colonial rule, including sites of French repatriates from Algeria, offers a unique perspective on the memorial forms of activism and the exploitation of political powers that has taken place as a result of this technological shift. This article describes the actions of these ‘entrepreneurs of memory’, who, despite their significant differences, nevertheless exploit the government and impose a partisan narrative. This deconstructionist approach to the Web allows historians, on the one hand, to understand the modes of memorial activism that frame a subject of study and, on the other, to analyse their subject of study without facing media constraints.


Author(s):  
Alexander V. Zabolotskiy

Nowadays, Russia and China are the most important partners for each other. Cooperation is developing in all areas of bilateral cooperation: from politics and economics to culture and security. Today, a large number of articles are also devoted to Russian-Chinese scientific and technological cooperation, which plays an increasing role in bilateral relations. Meanwhile, there is a shortage of studies that would aim to analyze publications in the Chinese media. This kind of analysis is necessary to better understand the perception of the image of Russian achievements in science and technology in the People’s Republic of China. At the same time, it will prevent potential disputes in sensitive areas. In addition, given the analysis in the Chinese media, it is possible to identify the concrete areas of interest for both sides. Successful cooperation between Russia and China in science and technology is based, on the one hand, on stable interstate relations which have the character of a strategic partnership, and, on the other hand, on mutually beneficial and long-term projects in business, joint scientific research and educational exchanges. At the same time, there are certain disproportions in Russian-Chinese scientific and technological cooperation. Russia is an important source of technical talents and know-how for Chinese partners, but the protection of intellectual property rights, which, unfortunately, is not always respected in China, is hardly discussed at the state level. In addition, there is not enough official support for cooperation in the field of information technology. Even if there are no problems that need to be solved at the highest level in this industry, it seems important to include it among the priority areas for cooperation for further development.


2019 ◽  
pp. 47-71
Author(s):  
Petr M. Mozias

China’s Belt and Road Initiative could be treated ambiguously. On the one hand, it is intended to transform the newly acquired economic potential of that country into its higher status in the world. China invites a lot of nations to build up gigantic transit corridors by joint efforts, and doing so it applies productively its capital and technologies. International transactions in RMB are also being expanded. But, on the other hand, the Belt and Road Initiative is also a necessity for China to cope with some evident problems of its current stage of development, such as industrial overcapacity, overdependence on imports of raw materials from a narrow circle of countries, and a subordinate status in global value chains. For Russia participation in the Belt and Road Initiative may be fruitful, since the very character of that project provides us with a space to manoeuvre. By now, Russian exports to China consist primarily of fuels and other commodities. More active industrial policy is needed to correct this situation . A flexible framework of the Belt and Road Initiative is more suitable for this objective to be achieved, rather than traditional forms of regional integration, such as a free trade zone.


Author(s):  
Menghan TAO ◽  
Ning XIAO ◽  
Xingfu ZHAO ◽  
Wenbin LIU

New energy vehicles(NEV) as a new thing for sustainable development, in China, on the one hand has faced the rapid expansion of the market; the other hand, for the new NEV users, the current NEVs cannot keep up with the degree of innovation. This paper demonstrates the reasons for the existence of this systematic challenge, and puts forward the method of UX research which is different from the traditional petrol vehicles research in the early stage of development, which studies from the user's essence level, to form the innovative product programs which meet the needs of users and being real attractive.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4(13)) ◽  
pp. 31-50
Author(s):  
Shiyu Zhang ◽  

Over the past decade, bilateral relations between China and Russia have attracted the attention of the whole world. As neighbors and rapidly developing countries, China and Russia are becoming increasingly important in the international arena. The strategic partnership and interaction between China and Russia occupy a significant place in the politics of both countries. Cooperation is developing dynamically in various fields, primarily in politics. After 2012, a change of government took place in China and Russia, which brought new changes to international relations. Studying the involvement of the media in this process can clarify their impact on international relations, in particular, their role in the relationship between China and Russia.


Author(s):  
Lisa Sousa

The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar examines gender relations in indigenous societies of central Mexico and Oaxaca from the 1520s to the 1750s, focusing mainly on the Nahua, Ñudzahui (Mixtec), Bènizàa (Zapotec), and Ayuk (Mixe) people. This study draws on an unusually rich and diverse corpus of original sources, including Ñudzahui- (Mixtec-), Tíchazàa- (Zapotec-), and mainly Nahuatl-language and Spanish civil and criminal records, published texts, and pictorial manuscripts. The sources come from more than 100 indigenous communities of highland Mexico. The book considers women’s lives in the broadest context possible by addressing a number of interrelated topics, including: the construction of gender; concepts of the body; women’s labor; marriage rituals and marital relations; sexual attitudes; family structure; the relationship between household and community; and women’s participation in riots and other acts of civil disobedience. The study highlights subtle transformations and overwhelming continuities in indigenous social attitudes and relationships. The book argues that profound changes following the Spanish conquest, such as catastrophic depopulation, economic pressures, and the imposition of Christian marriage, slowly eroded indigenous women’s status. Nevertheless, gender relations remained inherently complementary. The study shows how native women and men under colonial rule, on the one hand, pragmatically accepted, adopted, and adapted certain Spanish institutions, concepts, and practices, and, on the other, forcefully rejected other aspects of colonial impositions. Women asserted their influence and, in doing so, they managed to retain an important position within their households and communities across the first two centuries of colonial rule.


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