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Economia del Mundo y su capital San Tijuana: Mario Lopez at TEDxTijuana

you my name is Mario Lopez's going to do this talk in English so thank you very much for the organizers for having me here on for the last 15 years of a native of de cuantos anos i was born in both cultures two countries two languages and for me is going to go back and forth along the border as it is for many of us you know 50,000 people in this community along across the border every day so there's really no border for a big deal for those of us who have a legal reasons for crossing the border there's no border and that's the same along the us-mexico border so what I'm going to talk about today some of the some of the realities about the border economy some of the realities about the border states and a little bit of imagination what happening would think of different ways about the board so this is why i put in a thing from feta piensa border we need to think about new ways of our relationship through the book so first of all I'll start with a strong premises it just bear with me and go along with me okay this is the imagination part so what I want to propose to you today is that we are seeing the birth of a new country it's a country that i'm going to call it a mexico i did he invent this term there's a writer who wrote a book about border issues and the negative aspects of the border actually visit the title of his book but are we going to take it for today for our example and we are living in the most economically socially culturally vibrant area in the world and a lot of people don't notice so one of the things i want to convince you today is that we need to embrace this concept and we need to do take actions after after after thinking about this project so in a Mexica which is this is behind me you're seeing it's really the 10 borders things the four US states along the border together with the six mexican states this is our new country we're going to call it a mexican and obviously the capital of this country is called some quantum right it's a combination tijuana which is where we live which is where we work which is where we go to school we see family we go shopping and relive so San Diego Tijuana this is this is the most important CDs twin city projects along the border and that's where we live right now so for me I would suggest to you that we say that the capital of Mexico is an iguana and it's stablished in two thousand twelve inches this year because today we're going to hopefully come out of this room creating a new state solo Mexico by the numbers and these are some of the number crunchers I'm not an economist by profession I'm a historian but I did some of the number crunching data not a lot of people have none asked you use the first times I saw some of these numbers was in 2009 when the border Governor's Conference which is saying international body of Governors that need every year came out with the strategic guidelines for the quarter projects and there they were the ones who first added the GD piece of the difference border states along the border sum it up and put it together in other countries GDP right so this was in 2009 that this report came out and in two thousand six numbers a very astonishing thing came up in two thousand six numbers the ten border states when were the world's third economy this is impressive because very few of us really understand them we live in a world third economy this is two thousand six numbers the only other two biggest economies were the United States in Japan and number two and number 23 so those so two thousand six numbers so what has happened since then after this third order economies China was number fourth right so in the past over the past five years China has grown enormously they actually taken the spot there now the third world economy according to 2011 numbers and the ten border state as still very strongest economies are the number fifth in the world economy ingesting comparison mexico's 14 on the world's economy the this new on Mexica is right behind japan and ahead of germany as far as GDP as far as GDP per capita we're around 14 a mexica in the world ranking Mexico by contrast is in 86 which is a tremendous lumber and then put in Mexico decide just so who we have a good comparison a word this Mexican this border region is comparative mexican population wise and we some of the population of mexico with the 13th most populous country in the world mexico's 11th were just behind vietnam and i had a Vietnam Germany and France and as far as the languages the most spoken language is English but obviously Spanish the second most spoken map right so after Mexico this you know Mexico would actually be the second most populous country where people speak Spanish return part 78 million this put us a heads up ahead of span just behind Mexico these are some of the numbers so we're talking about the you know who actually took her place China I'm going to talk a little bit about why and how that occurred and what lessons can we draw from China so China you know it's a it's a it's a nation state is a communist socialist nation it's been around in the current political situation for about 50 years they're just doing their change of minister of as we speak and it's divided up in frog in provinces and China has done an enormous effort of economic growth economic change economic mobility and we've heard about this you know it's very it's been spread out in the media it's very well known but we don't exactly know a lot of people who really know what are the key issues that they made or key changes in their policy back in the late seventies actually got them where they're all right now and there's moving and that's moving them on words so I'll talk a few things about that so these are the new sort of the very image is modern images that we have a Chinese cities right very modern this doesn't look at the developing world look like the first world because there's actually first of all cities in China and on the top left you'll see we have bejine we have a Hong Kong we have thumbs wit and we have this enormous creativity this enormous amount of investment is happening in pcs you know these are that they change the way they did their economic development from their five years structural programs to actually having opening the doors of private investment and its beta change right so this is sort of the image at least I have of China when they think about the cities and this is the image in general I have about the economy in China right as I mentioned for the last 30 years the economic output of China has been an average of ten percent annual growth for 30 years ten percent annual growth there's no other country in the morning modern civilization that's grown at this pace and I want to contrast this to our own mexica into the image that the role has an hour we have ourselves about a mexico right so you know this is the image that comes to mind especially because of the media right we have an image of the border of a fence of a desert you know that border both joins us and divides us but it's the border that's a reality for political economic and security reasons um we have an image of wait time so people waiting to cross back and forth between our Mexico right this is something that's been historically a problem but of the nest you know 10 and 12 years after 911 it really became a situation for our our citizens crossing the border it's a payment it's a pain in their lives and it adds to the economic downturn of the border communities it asks you it doesn't make us competitive and it's and it's something that we live with and also there's no that's a lot the border you know the amount of undocumented immigration across our countries rosaura Mexica has been very hurtful because there's hundreds and hundreds and thousands of families members who have perished oh so this is sort of a an image of Mexico that's being portrayed by the media the last full of years that we need to have in mind us to how we can change that so China again that's very modern sophisticated first-world and then we have our Mexican this is an image that I put because for me it's it's a powerful image and at the same time it's a very sad image why is that so American news shows reality shows you know there's all types of them you know they started broadcasting this show on National Geographic which is normally great institution called foreign wars right are we living in a mortars of war so you know you be a judge of that my impression is that we're not I live a very happy life along the border as many feelings of us do along the border but yet you'll certain problems that we've had in the past have been highlighted by the media and shows like this obviously don't help right so this show is based on policing along our border right we don't have a show about people crossing the border to learn to go to school about the business opportunities along the border we don't have a show about the millions of goods and trucks and commodities and merchandise across the border every day being built in Mexico being built in the united states that go back and forth we don't have shows about that this is the type of shows because of ratings right so this is a type of event I think we need to work on we need to improve and we need to change in our new in Mexico you know mindset where you're thinking again China how do they did it how is it that this country you know being in a very very economically depressed area 30 years ago people used to die out of starvation how have they done it and for me there's something there's lots of lots of different aspects there's experts that they say well it's been the economic policies it's been the populations increase but I'll just focus on a couple of them to two highlights and we can talk about right so for me the key moment for China was not only for myself record it was in the 1970s when its leader Deng Xiaoping this cited to open up to the west it decided in an important because of a good relationship with then the administration of President Nixon to embark on opening the country to out to the west and you know a couple of the key issues that they made which we should discuss if that's something that we should do here in our Mexico is that they create they had a policy of one country two different systems or two system policy right why because they had inherited two different colonies from one from England the other one from Portugal it had their own economic little wavy they have their own economic economies they have their own monetary system and which always were highlights of Asian Commerce right thesis obviously Hong Kong and Macau which when they got turned over to Chinese rule you know the people were prey they were scared a lot of people didn't know what was going to happen where they're going to become kindness of the rest of the country where they're going to have special treatment and in fact at the end they did have a special treatment why because they were left alone in certain economic turns to warm as themselves promoting economic development the way they were doing it for the past hundred years this along with the creation of Foreign Trade Zone along its coast of China allowed for billions and billions of investment dollars companies it really opened the market you know and when you have such an enormously large population it helps something else that they did is economic policy one of the key strategies for China's development was the education system right and this is something that you everyone talks about education that's the way that we get the middle class forward it's not a new concept the part of their education policy was to send a lot of students abroad right students to get to the best universities state some of them who stay there some of them come back right so that's a very important thing because let me show you the next slide which is very stunning to me this is 2011 numbers of foreign students in US universities guess who's in the number one China obviously this is part of our economic policy right number two is India South Korea and so on the most boring part of this a list that i put together is look at word mexican canada or at look at the difference of the numbers and here we are one economic bloc right we're under NAFTA there's a north american free trade agreement we have billions of dollars in commerce going back and forth and yet look at universities this is one of the economic I think opportunities that nobody's really looking at they should be one of the policies in our Mexican to get people to go back and forth to study right just look at those numbers massive and i put here even the eleventh which is the fall just because comparison look at nepal having 10,000 students come to the u.s. Mexico having 13,000 and Nepal is just no need not even one-tenth of the population so I see this as an enormous opportunity in our new country call a mexican that we need to embrace and just too high that one of the state's river of Mexico California California since 1960s they did a major Astra plan of economic development based on education and because of that they have the best unit public school university system in the world riding to have over 40 federal research R&D labs 25,000 path least this is two thousand nine members number one ranking technology companies we all know California's economy is based on tech high technology it was based in manufacturing summary cultural but it had to do with the university systems based on two systems it's called one state to system the policy you have the UC system in California stick system over 300 colleges 207,000 suits so this is just an example of the opportunity there that we haven't reached I want to put this uh this image which is funny for me and funny and sad at the same time right this is an image taken at a 2009 border Governor's Conference I was there I saw this it was very amusing we all had a laugh but at the same time as something staff because he said the governor's over States over a Mexican right and when they meet once a year instead of really looking forward and agreeing on what are the next steps to put to some Mexico forward it's a photo op right so this is something that I think when you to get away from it we need to do a few steps so what I would propose to do for you and we do today Schedule III yet I choose to move forward three specific actions that hopefully I convince you that we can do so the first of them is that we agree on the creation of a new state a new way of looking at their ordered all the mix if you agree with me I have petition outside the end when it helps you sign and we can start this process the second of all is that we create a new vision for the board a new vision means not only creating a state that are hard we're going to manage support how are you going to collaborate amongst themselves and I proposed to strategic actions how to face that collaboration the first of all is finding out new institutions of way of linking each other because the way we are linking into Mexico right now doesn't work we have 10 different health system education system judicial system political systems and that we based it on education and on the exchange of a lot of exchange students going back and forth so thank you for your time I hope we can start with these actions and thank pervert for your attention you