
Cina Archivio

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

Cina-Santa Sede: l’Accordo claudicante
«Il vescovo Shen Bin, finora vescovo di Haimen, è stato insediato questa mattina nella diocesi di Shanghai, in Cina (Vatican news, 4 aprile). L’insediamento è …
7 aprile 2023/
/ Lorenzo Prezzi

China’s war labyrinth
Drums of war sound louder around China. For at least three years, Beijing’s propaganda has been warning that China must prepare for war, a vague …
5 aprile 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci

Soft War for Chaos
As Russian failures on the Ukrainian battleground emerge more starkly by the day, so former successes of Russian propaganda in the West become more naked …
27 marzo 2023/
/ Francesco Sisci
