Cina Archivio
No effective taxation without representation is, in a nutshell, the moral of Jin Xu’s exhaustive book Empire of Silver, which takes us through the history …
20 gennaio 2022/
/ Francesco Sisci
Pericolo endemia
English Version C’è una rivoluzione sociale e politica globale portata dalla trasformazione del Covid da epidemia a malattia endemica che potrebbe restare con noi per …
10 gennaio 2022/
/ Francesco Sisci - Narciso Mostarda
American Crisis and China
One year after what amounted to a botched attempted coup in America, the January 6, 2021 supporters perhaps should have been arrested. They haven’t been …
7 gennaio 2022/
/ Francesco Sisci
La Cina di Martino Martini
Quando, nel marzo 2019, il leader cinese Xi Jinping (Segretario del Partito e Presidente della Cina), in un articolo fatto pubblicare (per una sua visita …
28 dicembre 2021/
/ Luigi Bressan
Say “sì to Xi,” perhaps
There is a general consensus among foreigners and informed China watchers that the trouble with China is actually the trouble with Xi Jinping. If Xi …
16 dicembre 2021/
/ Francesco Sisci
Tackling Democracy, against an Olympic Boycott
Days before Washington announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics this week, China issued a white paper on democracy describing its own democracy and …
8 dicembre 2021/
/ Francesco Sisci
USA-China: parallel politics in 2022
Parallel yet different challenges await President Xi Jinping and President Joseph Biden in their respective countries, China and the United States, next year. At first …
4 dicembre 2021/
/ Francesco Sisci
A Contest of Three Kingdoms
On Monday, US President Joseph Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held their first, long-awaited meeting. It was virtual because of Covid restrictions but …
17 novembre 2021/
/ Francesco Sisci
History Dreams for Xi Jinping
The forthcoming party plenum, set to focus on China’s history and revise it, is no small or weird matter. Within the Party’s and China’s own …
6 novembre 2021/
/ Francesco Sisci
History for China’s Present?
In 1914, on the eve of World War I, Germany was the wealthiest country in Europe. It had the best industries, science, literature, and philosophy. …
25 ottobre 2021/
/ Francesco Sisci