The fight against armament and the eventual achievement of its purposes, if necessary, would still not be enough to achieve an international order guided by the force of reason and not by the reason of force. Issues such as international economic, monetary and financial imbalances; the reinforcement of hegemonic and globalist ideologies in certain foreign policies, whose germinal ethos is to deny the right to self-determination of peoples from southern Africa to Central America, and the growing questioning of multilateralism that some spheres of power carry out from perspectives eminently selfish, are other elements worth taking into account. Part of the theme stated above finds an echo in this edition of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior. The three texts in the "Essays" section structure some outstanding aspects of the task that Mexico performs daily in defense of its legitimate national interests. The timely anecdote, the lively story and the accurate question are the hallmarks of "China 1943", an interview conducted by Graciela de Garay with Don Alfonso Castro Valle, an experienced Mexican diplomat who recounts the vicissitudes of his transfer and stay in China. We hope that the material in the Magazine can contribute to the support of the processes of reflection, discussion and political action that the events of the world in general, and of Mexico in particular, demand of us as beings of our time.