Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (Jan 2014)

Macau in China's relations with the lusophone world

  • Carmen Amado Mendes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201400214
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 57, no. spe
pp. 225 – 242

Abstract

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After the transfer of the Portuguese administration to China, Macau kept its role as a bridge between East and West, inspired in the Portuguese settlement 500 years ago. The pragmatism of the Chinese central government, using the Lusophone specificities of this Special Administrative Region, supported the creation of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries, reviving the statute of the Portuguese language and culture in its own territory.

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