XULIO RÍOS The political map resulting from the local elections held in Taiwan predicts a "long year" of 14 months until the presidential elections of 2024. As happened four years ago, the KMT starts with good feelings; and as then, to consummate the long-awaited "double" he will need to tread very thinly in the coming months if he does not want to destroy this victory.

RAFAEL POCH Instead of undertaking the necessary international coordination to face the challenges of the century, the global elites, and in the first place the Western powers, mobilize their societies to fight against their geopolitical rivals. In the great context of the relative decline of the Western power in the world and the transfer to Asia of a good part of that power, there is no other strategy than a reflex of panic, consistent with the well-known saying "the thief thinks that everyone belongs to him". same condition”. 

EUGENIO GARCÍA GASCÓN On September 26, the influential thinker Yusuf al Qaradawi died in Qatar at the age of 96. It is not easy to give notice of the traces that throughout his long life he has left on contemporary Islam, of the phobias and philias that his words have aroused and arouse in detractors and followers, elites and ordinary people, and of the feelings that they awoke in regions prone to polarization.