Cina Archivio
中国人 Nomen omen, the name is destiny, and few modern countries believe it as much as China, where 名就是命. In the late 19th century, at …
4 giugno 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci
A Sino-American Glacial Thaw
US President Joseph Biden announced a thaw in China’s ties with the US. However, there is much more ice than meets the eye in this …
30 maggio 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci
Competitive peace or Kissingerian war?
China is at a perilous crossroads between war and peace in a world led by the United States. But perhaps there are still elements the …
25 maggio 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci
Russia’s Zugzwang and Gorbachev vindicated
For old Russian chess masters, the position is well known. It is a zugzwang: when any legal move will worsen the player’s situation, that of …
21 maggio 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci
Xi Jinping’s de-structuring power
When President Xi Jinping came to power at the 2012 Party Congress, he had to face grave and systemic challenges to the structure of the …
7 maggio 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci
Weakening the Hong Kong Peg
The fate of Hong Kong and, by extension, of Chinese economic stability hangs in the balance. According to a recent Reuters report: “The wide yield …
1 maggio 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci
Hong Kong visita Pechino
«Dopo la nostra visita alla Diocesi di Pechino, speriamo di continuare questo cammino di sinodalità, non solo con gli sforzi umani, ma anche sotto la …
30 aprile 2023/
/ Alberto Rossa
China’s suicidal surplus
On April 4, the 4-4 (an ominous number in Chinese superstition, as four sounds like “death”), four young people killed themselves in Hunan. They didn’t …
23 aprile 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci
China and Asia: West and East
Many factors decided the Saudis and the Iranians to abandon their long standing hostility and enter into peace negotiations under Chinese auspices, a regional sea …
17 aprile 2023/
/ Moss Roberts
Is China cornered?
As the reality of the new Cold War with China looms larger by the day, assessments of Beijing’s position there vary. In the first Cold …
10 aprile 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci