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This article aims to analyze the Foreign Policy of China in the Korean War based on a constructivist theoretical approach. So, I analyze the relationship between China’s identities and interests and its impact on the Chinese political elite to decide their participation in the Korean War. I employ documentary research to examine the relationship between China’s identities and interests and its impact on the Chinese political elite. As a result of the research, I conclude how the reformulation of identities reflects the mutually constitutive relationship between material and non-material structures. In this way, this article provides some elements to understand how in the decision-making of Foreign Policy the identity also influences the decisions and actions of the leaders.

This paper analyzes the possibilities of improving Sino-Mexican energy cooperation in the context of Mexican energy reform. To do this, we divided the article into two sections. The first section concerns opportunities for Sino-Mexican energy cooperation considering the economic and energy status of Mexico and its relationship with energy reform. The second section analyzes the challenges of Sino-Mexico energy cooperation in three areas: competition between international energy enterprises, domestic factors in Mexico and the uncertainty of the international energy market. This paper concludes with several suggestions for promoting Sino-Mexico energy cooperation.

This article explores the relationship between the economic, religious and ethical values of Mexico and China. The article is based on the cultural dimensions of Hofstede, Gert and Minkov (2010). The authors argue that although both countries are similar in many ways, they show strong differences in the dimensions of indulgence, pragmatism and uncertainty. These variables impact economic areas such as savings and entrepreneurship as well as disposition towards short-term or long-term outlook. We suggest that these cultural differences have their origin in the ethical and religious values of both countries, and therefore we discusses the formation of Catholicism and Confucianism as the basis of the values influencing economic performance. Religion in Mexico is about a relationship with God based on the promise of a better future in the afterlife, while in Chinese thought (the product of a pragmatic vision shaped by philosophical systems such as Confucianism as well as by different religions), the human being is the center of existence and acts for the present good. We conclude that these different ethical-religious approaches affecting the economic performance of both nations are the result of a historical process involving the gradual development and social acceptance of ethical and religious values.

Este articulo tiene como proposito mostrar la relacion entre el discurso sobre la cooperacion internacional y la construccion de la imagen de la Gran China. Para ello se analiza el discurso de la elite burocratica de la Republica Popular China en el marco del Foro sobre Cooperacion China-Africa. Este articulo parte del constructivismo como enfoque teorico con el fin de comprender la manera en que las identidades construidas socialmente y las acciones que los Estados asumen condicionadas en parte por dichas identidades, interactuan mutuamente y moldean el escenario internacional. Asi, este articulo sugiere que ademas de las estructuras materiales que situan a China como una potencia en ascenso, este pais construye al mismo tiempo la imagen de un Estado que corresponda con este creciente poderio. Asi, China construye una identidad en la que se representa como un Estado responsable en la sociedad internacional, que apuesta por un escenario multilateral y que al mismo tiempo se interesa por el desarrollo de los paises africanos, desde una optica distinta. El autor concluye que de esta manera China podria estar generando un modelo alterno de cooperacion internacional para el desarrollo que proyecta a este pais como una ruta diferente hacia desarrollo en la que los paises africanos se pueden apoyar y seguir.Abstrac:This article illustrates the relationship between the discourse on International Cooperation and the construction of the image of the Great China. Therefore, this article analyzes the discourse of the bureaucratic elite of the Republic of China in the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. The author assumes a constructivist theoretical approach to understand how socially constructed identities and actions of states determine the international stage. This article suggests that physical structures and identities help to China to build its image in international forums as a rising power. Thus, China is building an identity that is represented as a responsible state in international society, committed to a multilateral setting, based on the principle of nonintervention and equal treatment. Meantime, China is interested in the development of African countries from a different point. The author concludes that China could be developing a different model of international cooperation projects as a different model of development that should be supported and followed for Africans countries.