https://www.scmp.com/rss/323655/feed Juan José Morales is an entrepreneur and historian. Born in Madrid, he has lived in Hong Kong for almost 30 years and has been chairman of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. He has a master of international and public affairs from the University of Hong Kong and studied international affairs at Peking University. He is co-author of Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense and The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565-1815. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com An oft-quoted aphorism goes, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” One can hardly think of a better example of history rhyming than the recently inaugurated Chinese-funded Chancay port on Peru’s Pacific coast. The new era of Chinese-Latin American commercial relations it heralds is a modern reincarnation of the “Silver Way”, a trading relationship between Asia and Spanish America that endured for two and half centuries from the 1560s. Arguably the most important conduit for... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3289093/can-hong-kong-reclaim-its-role-asias-gateway-americas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3289093/can-hong-kong-reclaim-its-role-asias-gateway-americas?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:30:09 +0000 Long before the greenback there was the Spanish “dollar” and long before New York and London, there was Mexico City. The discovery of a route across the Pacific in the 16th century was a catalyst for the integration of the planet. In a new book, The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565-1815 (Penguin Random House North Asia), Hong Kong International Literary Festival founder Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales, a former president of the Spanish Chamber of... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2061588/how-china-played-part-birth-globalisation-16th?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2061588/how-china-played-part-birth-globalisation-16th?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:45:00 +0000 International politics, even more than nature, abhors a vacuum. And with America’s apparently headlong withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and metaphorically – if not yet physically – walling itself from Latin America, it is hardly surprising that Chinese-led alternatives were broached at the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima. “As Trump talks wall, China builds bridges to Latin America,” went the Associated Press headline. Right on the heels of President Xi... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2050454/chinas-belt-and-road-can-take-its-cues-worlds-first-model?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2050454/chinas-belt-and-road-can-take-its-cues-worlds-first-model?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:05:36 +0000