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Relations between Spain and China, regardless of regimes and time, have followed a path of friendship without excessive mutual commitment. An analysis of these relations reveals the decisive role played by the diplomats and officials who have led them from the moment they were formally established as sovereign states. This article deals with the identification and analysis of the curricula vitae of the Chinese officials who played a leading role in the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Spain. It affirms that they established a relationship characterized, structurally, by a protocolary nature conditioned by the officials' impulse to the post. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to show the matrix of Chinese territorial coloniality on the territory today called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). State "development" programs in the territory will be analyzed, as well as their effects on the management forms of the indigenous populations, with special interest in the strategies of colonial appropriation and despoil of the natural and human environment of the Uyghur people. This has been the scenario for controlled migration processes and military settlement colonies by the State, with the aim of establishing control and appropriation over its natural, geographical and human resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]