China & East Asia

On January 13, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) secured an unprecedented consecutive third term in office – the first since the introduction of direct presidential elections in 1996. Former Vice-President William Lai Ching-te…

Il deterioramento delle relazioni tra Cina e Stati Uniti sta determinando gravi e preoccupanti conseguenze sull’economia e sulla politica internazionale. Le cause recenti di questo deterioramento, senza scomodare Tucidide, vanno fatte…

The reelection of Taiwan’s ruling party, the Democratic People's Party, to the presidency – in the person of William Lai Ching-te, former Vice-President – will not fundamentally change the complicated economic dynamics of the…

Il vertice fra Joe Biden e Xi Jinping a San Francisco non evoca la nascita di un G-2, un direttorio bipolare sulla testa dell’Europa o della Russia, gli alleati delle due parti. Ma dimostra che i principali rivali del mondo di oggi cercano…

The Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in San Francisco has focused attention on the fraught relationship between the two superpowers – and on China’s three-body problem. China spearheads an open challenge to the Western view of the world and to the…