Reading time: 7 minutes This week’s Monday Briefing starts from China’s congress, in which Xi Jinping is expected to further consolidate his power and become the most long-lived leader in the country’s history since [ … ]
Tag: China
The Stories You (Probably) Missed Recently
Reading time: 6 minutes In the recent weeks the world had its eyes focused on the brutal conflict in Ukraine. However, that isn’t the only ongoing geopolitical crisis – from a brutal ethnic cleansing [ … ]
How the Red Dragon came to rule the world: A tale of Chinese investments
Reading time: 6 minutes The paradigmatic shift of U.S. foreign policy away from the Middle East exemplifies a new world order that has come to dominate the international political sphere. Old regimes are changing, [ … ]
Get ready for the storm
Reading time: 4 minutes Turns out Evergrande was never too ‘grande’ to fail Over the last couple of days, the Chinese company Evergrande has taken over the headlines due to fears of bankruptcy and [ … ]
Myanmar: New Friendship With China and the Road Back To a Military Dictatorship
Reading time: 6 minutes At the beginning of 2021 the world was hopeful for change after a disastrous year. The emergence of a global pandemic and eruption of pro-democracy demonstrations across the globe, raging [ … ]
Hong Kong: its political turmoil and the gloomy future
Reading time: 7 minutes The imposition of Hong Kong’s Extradition Bill in the summer of 2019 caused dozens of protests during which millions of Hongkongers marched in the name of democracy. And while the [ … ]
Not so over the Moon for Mooncakes anymore
Reading time: 5 minutes On October 1st, 2020, China – along with other Asian countries – celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is characterized by the dessert consumed during this festivity: mooncakes. This sweet treat [ … ]
China will be carbon neutral by 2060: fantasy or reality?
Reading time: 5 minutes On 22 September, President Xi pledged to make China carbon neutral by 2060. Today, this seems an unrealistic goal, as the Chinese economy is addicted to coal and China is [ … ]
My War Eagles are Circling the Treasure Island
Reading time: 7 minutes Rarely do we experience the flashes of the contemporary wave of democratisation popularised once by S. Huntington. Looming behind the illiberal politics of the United States, India or Brazil, to [ … ]
Italy’s key role in China’s expansion over the European Community
Reading time: 4 minutes di Andrea Oliva It’s definitely no secret at all, that relationships between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China haven’t always been easy nor gone smoothly. China is [ … ]