Italia, Europa, Mondo Archivio

Centrifugal and Centripetal forces

One China or One World?

The present US-China trade row is spinning in many directions, despite the 90-day truce agreed to by presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on December …
  / Francesco Sisci
sign of God

Perhaps a miracle from China

Two months after the agreement between China and the Vatican was signed we modestly believe to see here a sign of God and a miracle …
  / Anthony Zhu Changyou
Monaci trappisti di Tibhirine in Algeria

I martiri di Tibhirine proclamati beati

Ciò che ha motivato la loro vita di cristiani in Algeria  può essere ricapitolato come «logica dell’incarnazione», cercando di comprendere «quello che Dio vuole nelle …
  / Mirella Susini
agreement between China and the Vatican

Why Pope Francis agreed with Xi Jinping

The September 22 agreement between China and the Vatican is a decisive event, of which it is difficult to exaggerate the importance and whose scope …
  / Francesco Sisci
U.S. approach to China

Trump-Xi summit, the end of a paradigm

For 40 years the U.S. worked to smoothly integrate China into the world. Today America has apparently given up on this plan and in any …
  / Francesco Sisci
Brexit

A European price for Brexit

There are many sides to the Brexit story, apparently partly botched because the British seem unhappy with the present deal with the European Union. In …
  / Francesco Sisci
gent

Belgio: la Chiesa del servizio

La vita della Chiesa non può essere ridotta o spiegata fornendo le cifre della participazione alla messa domenicale. Specialmente in una cultura dove l’obbligo domenicale …
  / Luc Van Looy
sense of betrayal

You wronged me, thinks the US of China

The history of relations between United States and China is about many things – it is about ideology, geopolitics, global rivalry; it may be a …
  / Francesco Sisci
Seoul and Pyongyang

Korean conundrums

Dismantling checkpoints at Panmunjom is a clear signal that Seoul and Pyongyang want to move ahead with their own meaningful steps toward a peace process …
  / Moss Roberts
USA midterm elections

A German Elephant in the room with Trump and Xi

The actual numbers of the midterm elections perhaps mean little. It was a win for the “Trump model” however one wishes to define Donald Trump’s …
  / Francesco Sisci