Puerto Rico - Política
EFE: 08/07/2006-18:40:00

Puerto Rico intercede por visas para EU de empresarios chinos

San Juan, 7 ago (EFE).- El Departamento de Estado puertorriqueño servirá como intermediario para el otorgamiento de visados a empresarios chinos interesados en hacer negocios en EU, informó hoy el secretario de esa dependencia, Fernando Bonilla.

Bonilla, quien se encuentra en China como parte de una delegación comercial, hasta el próximo miércoles, informó de que el viceministro de Relaciones Exteriores chino, Yang Jiech, le propuso que Puerto Rico sea "un intermediario para lograr avances" en el otorgamiento de visados para los chinos que quieren hacer negocios en EU.

El secretario de Estados indicó en un comunicado que trató el tema con el embajador de EU en China, Clark Randt, quien "reiteró su disposición de ser facilitadores en este proceso" y se comprometió con ayudar con el objetivo de "incrementar el intercambio comercial entre China y Puerto Rico".

Por otra parte, el secretario de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio puertorriqueño, Ricardo Rivera Cardona, firmó un acuerdo de colaboración con el Word Trade Centre de Pekín para el intercambio de información entre empresarios de China y Puerto Rico.

"Este acuerdo de colaboración facilitará que los empresarios puertorriqueños puedan vender sus productos o servicios en el mercado asiático y permitirá que nuestros comerciantes identifiquen productos chinos competitivos que tengan salida en el mercado de Puerto Rico", indicó Rivera Cardona en el comunicado.

Bonilla indicó que en las diferentes reuniones llevadas a cabo en Shanghai le sorprendió "el genuino interés de conocer más detalles sobro cómo realizar negocios en Puerto Rico".

La delegación boricua visitará los próximos días la provincia de Guangdong y después se trasladará a Taipei, donde sostendrá reuniones con funcionarios.

Las exportaciones puertorriqueñas hacia China aumentaron entre el 2003 y el 2004 en 15 millones de dólares. En ese periodo el intercambio comercial entre China y Puerto Rico fue de unos 480 millones, según fuentes oficiales. EFE

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03-Ago-2006

Beijing, la capital de China, es una ciudad de grandes contrastes, donde las estructuras milenarias representativas de la cultura china se combinan con modernos rascacielos que albergan las oficinas de todo tipo de empresas locales e internacionales.

De no ser porque uno ve los soldados vestidos con la tradicional vestimenta verde y la imagen de Mao por donde quiera, desde camisetas, afiches y hasta relojes de pulsera, uno no sabría que China es un país socialista liderado por comunistas.

La influencia occidental está por todos lados, y hay McDonald´s, Starbucks y Kentucky Fried Chickens por todas las esquinas.

También vi Pizza Huts, Subways, Baskin-Robbins, un Hard Rock Café y todas las marcas americanas en las vitrinas, fachadas de edificios y “billboards”, ejemplo de la combinación única de socialismo con capitalismo que ha transformado a China durante los pasados 20 años y que la convertirá en una potencia económica cada vez más fuerte.

Las construcciones están por todas las esquinas, tanto de grandes edificios comerciales y de vivienda como de otras instalaciones en preparación para las Olimpiadas del 2008.

Sin embargo, el impacto negativo de este desarrollo tan rápido y los retos futuros que enfrenta el país son evidentes tan pronto uno sale por la puerta del aeropuerto. La contaminación en esta capital es tal, que el smog y la humedad se combinan para crear una especie de neblina espesa que no huele muy bien y que la hace lucir como si fuera de noche en plena tarde, aunque en nuestro segundo día aquí el sol brilló y la vista de la ciudad se transformó por completo.

Las bicicletas todavía abundan, y se ven personas de todas las edades sobre ellas, pero el tráfico normal en las grandes avenidas es como el del Expreso Las Américas a las seis de la tarde un viernes. La desigualdad económica también es evidente, y vi ancianos y algunas madres con niños pequeños pidiéndole limosnas a los turistas.

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Chinese immigrants, such as the one pictured, immigrated to Puerto Rico and South America

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

A Chinese Puerto Rican is a person who was born, or resides, in Puerto Rico, but whose ancestors came from southern China. In some cases it can mean a person of mixed Chinese and Hispanic heritage.

Chinese were the first people to arrive in Puerto Rico by large numbers during the 19th century after The United States Congress passed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. This act had forbid the immigration of Chinese to the mainland United States for a period of 10 years. Many of them went to Puerto Rico to work on the island's rail systems, just like many other Chinese who emigrated to other parts of the world. Many of the Asian railroad workers in Puerto Rico decided to settle permanently and founded "El Barrio Chino" (Chinatown) in San Juan. Their children were among the first Chinese-Puerto Ricans.

Although Chinese-Puerto Ricans are small in numbers compared to Puerto Ricans of Spanish, Amerindian, or African descent, nevertheless, they form an identifiable structure of Puerto Rican society. Many are involved in operating Chinese restaurants, and others work in other sectors. Many members of Puerto Rico's Chinese minority have integrated both Hispanic and Chinese culture into their daily lives.

Some Chinese have married Puerto Ricans almost since the time that the Chinese began settling there, many of today's Chinese-Puerto Ricans actually have Hispanic last names and are of mixed Chinese and Puerto Rican descent.

It shall be noted also, that most Puerto Ricans of other races refer to all East Asians as Chinese (as is the case in other Spanish-speaking societies). Because of this, it must be clarified that in Puerto Rico, many Asians from other different countries also live there. Many Chinese also came from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, while other Asian groups came from Japan, Korea, other Latin American countries — especially from Cuba and nearby Dominican Republic — and even mainland United States. Some Chinese Puerto Ricans went to the mainland United States for a better way of life during the early part of the 20th Century, while many Chinese who immigrated to the mainland United States are migrating to Puerto Rico, most of which set up restaurants.

For other uses, see San Juan.

San Juan (sahn HWAHN) is the capital and largest city in Puerto Rico, located in the Northern Coastal Plains region in the karst zone, north of Aguas Buenas and Caguas; east of Bayamón; and west of Carolina and Trujillo Alto.

The city is named after Saint John the Baptist (Spanish: San Juan Bautista). The latest census estimates place the city's population at 433,733, making it the 42nd-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States. It is also the oldest European settlement in United States territory.

San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521 and is the oldest city in Puerto Rico. Today, San Juan serves as Puerto Rico's most important seaport, as well as the main manufacturing, financial, cultural, and tourist center of the island. The population of the metropolitan area, including San Juan and the municipalities of Bayamón, Guaynabo, Cataño, Canovanas, Caguas, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Carolina and Trujillo Alto is about 2 million inhabitants, hence about half the population of Puerto Rico now live in this area. The main airports serving the city are Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, located in Carolina and Fernando Ribas Dominicci Airport located in the Isla Grande district of the Municipality of San Juan.

Cathay

Although now restricted mostly to poetic usage, the name Cathay has historically been used as a name for China, particularly its northern half. Cathay derives from the name of the Khitan ethnic group, which ruled over most of North China as the Liao Dynasty until being displaced in turn by the Jurchens from the northeast and the Mongols from the north. A cognate form, Kitay, remains the most commonly used name for China in the modern Slavic languages.

 Puerto Rico

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, IPA, also Porto Rico (archaic) and more commonly Puerto Rico, is a United States territory with Commonwealth status[1] located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands. The archipelago of Puerto Rico includes the main island of Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, and a number of smaller islands and keys, the largest of which are Mona, Vieques, and Culebra.

The nature of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States is the subject of ongoing debate in the island and also in the United Nations.[2] Those who support maintaining the status quo (i.e., Commonwealth status) insist that upon attaining this status, Puerto Rico entered into a voluntary association with the U.S. "in the nature of a compact", but according to a President's Task Force report, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated organized territory of the United States, subject to the plenary powers of the United States Congress and with the "right to establish a constitution for the internal administration of government and on matters of purely local concern".