Time Is Power: when Countries Use the Clock to Make Politics

Jornal Expresso

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On the border between China and Afghanistan, with less than 100 kilometers, passing from one side to the other forces three and a half hours of clockwork. The responsibility is for a decision taken in Beijing in 1949, when the Communist Party imposed the same time all over the territory, from Shanghai to Xinjiang. The week the clocks change again, we go through the cases in which the time zone served to make policy.