by Editorial Staff In Italy there is "maximum anti-terrorism alert" even if there is no information on "hostile initiatives in preparation" by jihadist groups. This is what emerges from the Interior Ministry, after the tragedy in Moscow and in view of the meeting of the National Committee for Public Order and Security, which will be held tomorrow [...]

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by Francesco Matera A powerful rearmament is what Europe sees in the not too distant horizon. The winds of war coming from Ukraine and the threat of a rock-solid Russia, capable of challenging the West, despite the heavy sanctions applied to it, are just some of the factors that push the Old Continent to have to think seriously [...]

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Italy, France and the European Union should dialogue to set up a common strategy to be implemented in Libya, as there are vital interests at stake in the energy field thanks to an important ten-year presence of Eni and Total in the field of hydrocarbon research by Massimiliano D'Elia Tehran is looking to expand its commercial networks in […]

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by Editorial Staff The Chinese coast guard boarded a Taiwanese tourist ship the day before yesterday near the island of Kinmen, controlled by Taipei. Taipei's concern is that Beijing could take advantage of an incident that occurred last week to try to establish full control of the waters near the Chinese coast. The boarding and inspection then carried out [...]

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The attention these days is entirely focused on the feared Russian war capabilities in a space environment. Hypersonic missiles, nuclear-powered satellites equipped with electronic weapons are considered concrete threats to the security of states due to the damage they could cause to Western satellites dedicated to providing essential services such as those in the field of telecommunications and [...]

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by Francesco Matera The Head of the Intelligence Committee of the United States House, the Republican Mike Turner yesterday came out into the open, warning American politics and consequently the entire Western world that the Russian threat also and above all comes from space, identifying it as a " serious threat to national security." Turner also […]

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by Editorial Staff The Taiwanese government has expressed outrage after China unilaterally changed the routes of flights crossing an airway, near the sensitive median line in the Taiwan Strait. The change, according to Taiwan, is a deliberate act aimed at altering the status quo, for military purposes only. The Civil Aviation Administration of China […]

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by Editorial Staff Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to intervene to stop attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Houthis. Otherwise, trade relations with Beijing could deteriorate. The news was reported exclusively by the Reuters agency according to some indiscretions revealed, on condition of anonymity, by Iranian and Chinese diplomats. […]

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by Editorial Staff William Lai Ching-te was elected the new president of Taiwan, candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), with which China has interrupted every channel of dialogue for at least eight years, obtained 40% of the votes. The gap with political opponents was important: Hou of the Kuomintang stopped at [...]

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by Andrea Pinto A few hours ago the Minister of Defense of Taiwan reported to the media that, yesterday, two alleged Chinese sounding balloons crossed the Taiwan Strait, remaining well north of the island. It is the second time this month that Taipei has reported the presence of such objects in the vicinity of national airspace. The […]

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by Editorial Staff Last October, Russian and Chinese company executives met secretly to discuss the possibility of building an undersea tunnel connecting Russia to Crimea. This underwater communication line would allow the transport of goods to Crimea, offering a route safe from Ukrainian attacks. The news emerged [...]

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by Pasquale Preziosa The Telegraph in an article by Blake Herzinger, USSC researcher in foreign policy and defense, reported that Chinese scientists, in a war simulation against the United States, stated that China's hypersonic weapons could destroy the new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford. In the simulation the Chinese have […]

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Biden-Xi agree for a responsible global confrontation. Reactivated line of communication between military leaders. Coldness over Taiwan

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by Massimiliano D'Elia As part of the Apec (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit on November 15th the Biden-Xi Jinping meeting will take place, good news in a period of war in the middle of Europe and in Middle East. The two leaders of the strongest economies on Earth will sit at a table to talk about multiple issues dividing [...]

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The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni at the G20 in New Delhi declared that Italy-China relations must not be limited to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) alone. The final decision on leaving the BRI, the Italian Prime Minister specified, has yet to be taken (by December 2023). In Italian newspapers, however, there was talk of exit [...]

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Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled to South Africa to attend the annual summit of the five emerging economies that make up the BRICS group. During the meetings, Xi promised greater cooperation, including military, with many African countries that have long been ignored by the West and in which Beijing has invested billions of dollars in infrastructure projects for years.

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The ASEAN bloc (organization of Southeast Asian Nations) gathered today in the Indonesian capital for a summit that will focus on concerns over the growing rivalry between the United States and China in the region. ASEAN consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. ASEAN) will also have as participants [...]

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On August 28, the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources published the 2023 edition of the "National Charter of China", an official document that has become a point of reference for "national sovereignty".

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Following the lessons learned from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, where we saw the massive use of drones, the Western armed forces are trying to take action by studying new types of weapon systems in the UAV sector, as well as suitable defence. With this in mind, the Pentagon has decided to deliver, over the next two years, a large number [...]

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The expansion of the BRICS bloc, under discussion at this week's summit in Johannesburg, has attracted a diverse group of potential candidates – from Iran to Argentina – intent on starting a new inclusive process to compete with the western block. There are many issues that emerging countries complain about: According to officials of the [...]

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(by Francesco Matera) Xi Jinping flew to Africa for a state visit, tomorrow he will be in Johannesburg to participate in the BRICS summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Russia will be represented by Foreign Minister Lavrov because an international arrest warrant is pending on Putin ... eh you can't risk an arrest even [...]

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The Chinese Ministry of State Security has revealed the name of the spy recruited by the CIA in Rome. This is a certain Zeng, born in July 1971 who worked for a military industrial group and had access to important classified information. Without ever naming the company, the Beijing authorities only said [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) With its foreign policy, China is succeeding in the forward-looking strategy of conquering not only African governments, but also many inhabitants of the black continent. This was confirmed by a survey last March by the US opinion research institute Pew Research Center, which examined China's global posture, interviewing over thirty thousand [...]

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has replaced two generals who commanded the country's missile forces, thus starting the most important purge within the army's top ranks. General Li Yuchao, commander of the People's Liberation Army's Rocket Force, and his deputy, General Liu Guangbin, had already disappeared from circulation several [...]

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The United States and its allies have warned China that they will jointly defend themselves after discovering a Chinese spy ship off the coast of Australia during the massive military exercise (Talisman Saber 2023) between the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. The exercise is a real show of strength [...]

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Meeting with the Ministry of Tourism of the People's Republic of China and four events dedicated to the main buyers of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing Enit, the National Tourism Agency, prepares the way for Italian companies intending to enter or reposition themselves on the Chinese market with four appointments organized in the main cities of the Middle Country and with a [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) There are many reasons for friction between the United States and China: Taiwan, free trade, the microchip industry, human rights, support for Russia and the Belt & Road Initiative. Just to mention the most important, leaving aside the question of the alleged spy balloons and the military training base in Cuba. The initiatives are weak [...]

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Yesterday Blinken before meeting President Xi Jinping, a meeting not entirely taken for granted and never confirmed since Blinken landed in Beijing, spent several hours with the highest representative of Chinese foreign policy Wang Yi. The confrontation with Wang Yi was very tough when the Chinese high representative, referring to the States [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Antony Blinken is the first high representative of the Biden administration to have landed in China since 2021. Once the differences have been settled following the story of the alleged Chinese spy balloons, it was necessary to rewind the tape and try to resume talks deemed necessary between two superpowers, especially with an ongoing conflict in the [...]

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China continues to arm itself with high-quality and highly deterrent systems as the interference of the West increases in the Indo-Pacific, which does not want to give in to Beijing's ambitions on the island of Taiwan. From the largest aircraft carrier in the world, the Liaoning class, presented a few months ago to long-range missiles capable of hitting [...]

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Chinese premier Li Qiang praised the "strategic cooperation partnership" between Beijing and Moscow, during the meeting held in the Great Hall of the People with his equal Russian Mikhail Mishustin, welcomed with a grand welcome ceremony held in Tiananmen Square. A Memorandum of Understanding on trade cooperation in services was signed, […]

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On the weekend when the world's big seven meet in Japan, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin yesterday briefed Congress on how the Pentagon intends to spend hundreds of millions of dollars this year on new weapons and military preparations, such as deterrence to the growing danger of war with China. […]

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General Pasquale Preziosa, former head of the Air Force and today president of the Eurispes Security Observatory spoke this afternoon to TGCOM24 on the crisis in Ukraine. The general analyzed the recent "dense" and "intense" Russian missile activity, specifying that the Patriot defense system worked (according to reports from the Ukrainians) against the dreaded Khinzal [...]

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Next week, the leaders of the G7 countries will discuss China's use of "economic coercion" in foreign relations, according to a high-level US official. The issue will be part of a section of the final joint statement at the end of the May 19-21 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. They will also be referred to as […]

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(by Antonio Adriano Giancane) Africa, a land full of riches and not just diamonds as appeared in the film presentation "Blood Diamond": Africa is much more! Africa is a huge mine of natural resources such as oil, diamonds, gold, rare earths, coltan and cobalt. Even the uranium used by France comes from Africa in particular from Niger. The […]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Over the years, China has become the largest shipbuilder in the world, accounting for about 41% of global production, according to UNCTAD data (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development). Beijing is also the largest maritime trader in the world, with its port traffic accounting for 32% of traffic [...]

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China and India, opposed to outright condemnation of Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine, yesterday voted a resolution of the UN General Assembly on relations between the United Nations and the Council of Europe which explicitly refers to the aggression of the Russian Federation of Ukraine. The green light to the text of the resolution (approved last week with 122 [...]

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A large military airship has been found by satellites at a remote base in the desert of northwest China. With an airship, easily manoeuvrable, the question of the vulnerability of the balloons was resolved which, instead, remain in the air at the mercy of the winds and above all from the interception of the adversaries and the consequent shooting down, as happened with the Chinese balloons unearthed [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Putin's propaganda in support of the special military operation in Ukraine is centered on historical reasons, dating back to the empire of Peter the Great and on the narrative of the dangerous enlargement of NATO to Russia's borders. of NATO towards Russia is a thesis studied by many international observers and analysts who, [...]

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On the second day of Chinese military exercises near the island of Taiwan, joint precision attacks were simulated against key targets on the island of Taiwan and surrounding waters. This was reported by Chinese state media. The Chinese CCTV broadcaster revealed that the military air force has deployed dozens of planes to "fly in the airspace of the target" and [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) A multipolar world, this is how Xi Jinping's China understands it, which wants to have an ever greater impact on international disputes to protect its strategic and economic interests. Xi recently proposed 12 points for peace between Russia and Ukraine and concretely favored the once unthinkable rapprochement between Iran [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) In the end what we have always avoided is happening. We probably or inevitably favored China's rapprochement with Russia, with unpredictable consequences for the West, with bitter tastes for the future of the economy and for the growth of tensions in the military field. The meeting in Moscow between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping sanctions, of [...]

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The Chinese military is closely watching the warfare techniques used in the Ukraine conflict to enhance its capabilities in possible future conflicts with the United States. The objective of military research is to be able to shoot down the starlink satellites in low orbit in order to be able to defend tanks and helicopters from the deadly Javelin missiles [...]

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The head of Lithuanian military intelligence said Russia has enough resources to continue the war in Ukraine for another two years at the current intensity. "The resources that Russia has right now would be enough to continue the war at the current intensity for two years," Lithuanian intelligence chief Elegijus Paulavicius told reporters. […]

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The Chinese military is closely watching the warfare techniques used in the Ukraine conflict to enhance its capabilities in possible future conflicts with the United States. The objective of military research is to be able to shoot down the starlink satellites in low orbit in order to be able to defend tanks and helicopters from the deadly Javelin missiles [...]

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China has never supplied weapons to interested parties in the ongoing conflict in the middle of Europe. “Why then threaten sanctions on China? It's absolutely not acceptable." So the Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Biden spoke about the application of possible sanctions to China during the meeting with German Chancellor Scholz, which took place [...]

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Yesterday German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met American President Joe Biden in the White House for over an hour. A meeting marked by the common will to continue to help Ukraine against the aggressor. Biden praised historic German shifts in securing decisive military support and moral support for Ukraine. In addition to the supply of Berlin weapons [...]

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After a year of war there is no peace. United Nations votes against Russia. Der Spiegel: China ready to sell drones to Russia. The US allocates another 2 billion. G7: ready to give more help. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) The war in Ukraine today enters its first year without being able to see any on the horizon [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) After the flu symptoms, the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni in the coming days, according to an indiscretion reported by La Stampa, will be in Kiev to meet the Ukrainian leader Vlodymyr Zelensky. Before taking the highly armored train that will take you to Kiev, you will stop in Warsaw to meet Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The flu […]

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BBC Persian has reported that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit China today, at the official invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The visit will last three days. Iran and China have strong economic ties, especially in the fields of energy, transport, agriculture, trade and […]

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The Pentagon has announced that in recent years at least 40 Chinese balloons have flown over different parts of the world far and wide, including Italy. Yes, precisely our country where there is the highest concentration of high NATO and American military technology scattered from north to south in the various military bases. From […]

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The very high altitude, identified between 20 km and 100 km, is the domain for hypersonic missiles that ricochet off the layers of the atmosphere, drones and stratospheric aircraft, such as the American U-2 spy plane, or even air balloons such as the one of Chinese origin identified last Thursday over American airspace. The very high altitude is difficult to control […]

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The Pentagon is tracking and monitoring a Chinese reconnaissance balloon over the continental United States. The news was reported by the media following information received from the Pentagon. Pentagon spokesman, Pat Ryder, reported that the US "has detected and is monitoring a high-altitude surveillance balloon that [...]

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A Russian navy exercise off the coast of South Africa highlights to the international community Pretoria's refusal to condemn the invasion of Ukraine. Two Russian warships are expected in Durban next February for a nine-day exercise that will also include Chinese naval units. President Ramaphosa's government does not support sanctions [...]

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The encirclement of the Catholic Church by the communist regime continues with new methods. The in-depth analysis was done by the Spanish newspaper l'Avanguardia, after the latest events and the new episcopal appointments. In relations with the Chinese communist regime, the Holy See always walks on tiptoe on the razor's edge. The Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo […]

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Protests erupted in cities and campuses across China. Frustrated and outraged citizens took to the streets in a rare wave of demonstrations against the government's "zero covid" policy. Residents of Shanghai, China's most populous city, gathered last night and this morning to ask [...]

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The Dutch government has accused China of running "illegal" unlicensed police offices in the Netherlands. The facilities were allegedly used to pressure Chinese citizens in the country. The Dutch broadcaster RTL News reported yesterday that the "administrative" offices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, set up to help Chinese citizens obtain [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The war in Ukraine is taking a direction that does not help Vladimir Putin both internally and abroad. The defeat of the Russian forces in the Kharkiv region does not portend a rapid end to the conflict. The Russian army was unable to overwhelm the Ukrainian one with the help of Western intelligence and resources [...]

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Xi Jinping's China at the multilateral summit in Samarkand - Uzbekistan - at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Sco) will probably decree the vision of a new world order by now no longer unilateral, with the US plate. After the meeting last July between the representatives of the emerging BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa) at the XIVth summit which [...]

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General Pasquale Preziosa was interviewed by the prestigious American magazine Defense.info, on current issues involving new world actors in the economic, social and military fields. Particular attention was paid to the new strategic documents of NATO and the EU, considered already "past" and not suitable for modern challenges. The point of view of [...]

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From 13 to 27 August next in Venezuela, in the city of Barquisimeto, in the state of Lara, in the north-west of the country, there will be a military exercise advertised as a sporting event called "Army Games" in which Russian troops will participate. China and Iran. It is the first time that Russian-led drones and sniper commando [...]

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 “The measures included in the DL 'Aid Bis' regarding the containment of energy costs, the drought emergency and the reduction of the tax wedge represent a first step to be appreciated, but which the next government will have to improve and deepen. The interventions, in fact, are not fully sufficient to meet the needs of Italian businesses and families who see [...]

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After Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, China did not stand by by organizing an impressive military exercise close to the island which will see ballistic missile launches, fighter jet overflights and tactical movements of warships until Sunday evening. A taste for world public opinion of what Beijing could [...]

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The tension between the US and the Chinese government remains high, which has erupted following the visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi, president of the United States House of Representatives who, speaking to Parliament, declared "Our determination for democracy is iron". To Pelosi's statement is added that of President Tsai who warns [...]

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Two hours and seventeen minutes, as long as the phone call between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping lasted, it is the fifth time that the two leaders have heard each other over the phone on the hottest issues in the world. Next time, they vowed, they will meet in person. Apparently, reading the press releases launched at the end of the phone call, [...]

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Some Chinese college students work in a secret technology society that has masked the true nature of the business from them: to seek out Western espionage targets and translate hacked documents. The Financial Times identified and contacted 140 potential translators, mostly recent graduates who studied English at public universities in Hainan, Sichuan and Xi'an. [...]

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US President Biden arrived in Germany last night to participate in the G7, a summit of particular value in the light of the new world order, launched by the predominant autocracies, China and Russia. The goal is to continue in Russia's isolation and start a new sanctioning course against China, guilty of indirectly helping [...]

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China is racing to catch up with US military capabilities to pursue its sights on Taiwan, even by force if necessary. Beijing is building its largest aircraft carrier. The ship, named Fujian in honor of the coastal province opposite Taiwan, is under construction at the Jiangnan shipyard in [...]

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(by Paolo Giordani) The director of the “Kiev Post”, Bohdan Nahaylo, called the historic trip to the Ukrainian capital of French President Macron, German Chancellor Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Draghi “an expiation”. What did the leaders of the three major countries of the European Union have to "atone for", including the Romanian president Johannis? In the eyes of Ukrainians, the [...]

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Recently, the Draghi government had to apply the special powers of the golden power to block the foreign sale of Italian entrepreneurial jewels. Legislative Decree no.21 / 2012 marks the transition from a golden share regime to a golden power system. It allows the exercise of special powers with regard to all companies that carry out significant activities [...]

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(by Paolo Giordani) Almost 100 days after the beginning of what Moscow calls a "special military operation" (the post-Soviet version of the British understatement almost always has ironic implications), the hypothesis of a ceasefire in Ukraine and the start of "serious" negotiations still appears remote, for various reasons. The first and most evident is that not only [...]

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The problem of blocked wheat in Ukraine and Russia requires swift responses. With Ukrainian Black Sea ports closed by the Russians since the invasion began, and over 20 million tons of grain locked in silos, Westerners have appealed to Moscow to defuse a food crisis that has now gone global. The [...]

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The US, Japan, India and Australia - Quad - have started a maritime surveillance program in the Pacific to control Beijing. Biden spoke with the premier, the Japanese Kishida, the Indian Modi, and the Australian of Italian origin, Albanian, about all the world disputes, including Ukraine, specifying that the latter is more than a question [...]

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Joe Biden in Tokyo, at a press conference, declared himself in favor of the use of force to defend Taiwan in the event of war with China. Furthermore, he argued that this is not a change in US strategy for the self-governing island issue. The feeling, however, is that Washington has taken a clearer stance than in the past to contain [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday before flying to Korea, President Biden met with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, after which he started the work of the Congress for the ratification of the request of Finland and Sweden to join the Born. The only knot to untie to achieve the entry of [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Until yesterday, Russia has flaunted its superiority to the world in the hypersonic armaments sector. Last month, Moscow announced that it was using Kinzhal, hypersonic ballistic missiles with nuclear or conventional capability, launched from a modified Mig-31 for the first time in Ukraine. One of the six "next generation" weapons [...]

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The countries that have not joined the sanctions against Russia are India, China, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia. But many others, from Mexico to Argentina, have offered facade support to the peremptory American demands to take sides for Ukraine. In Africa openly in favor of Putin's Russia are registered, South Africa, Angola, Algeria, Congo, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, [...]

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The Biden Administration on April 18 announced a unilateral moratorium on anti-satellite missile tests, inviting other nations operating in space to follow the initiative. Vice President Kamala Harris announced a ban on conducting such tests for the United States, after tests conducted in recent years by Russia, China and India which have [...]

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Aleksandar Vucic's Serbia, even if it condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, winks at Putin: it has not aligned itself in imposing sanctions on Moscow and there is strong pro-Russia sentiment on the part of the population that has dropped several times in the square in support of the special operation in Ukraine. All this net of a feeble [...]

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(by Giuseppe Paccione) Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, caused by the Russian invasion with the aggression towards a sovereign and independent state, China has tried in every way to stay out of the Russian-Ukrainian war struggle. This is demonstrated by the abstention of the Chinese delegation from adopting a couple of draft resolutions (S / 2022/155 and S / RES / 2623/2022) discussed in [...]

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On Cusano Tv to 'The Entrepreneur and the Others', General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and today president of the Eurispes Security Observatory, treated the question of the war in Ukraine with disarming lucidity, giving a most studied version of the global situation. An analysis that differs from that written on [...]

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A condemnation of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine is contained in a letter signed by 4 teachers, academics, students, graduates and staff of the prestigious 'Lomonosov' Moscow State University, the oldest in Russia. 'We categorically condemn the war our country has waged in Ukraine', the document states. Meanwhile, Maria Ovsiannikova, the woman [...]

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The Russian air attack at dawn, near Lviv, targeted a military base (Ivano-Frankivsk) just 25 kilometers from Poland and seems to be a direct message from Russia to NATO and the EU. At the base there is also the International Center for Peace and Security (Ipsc) where the exercises were held last September [...]

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The systems of the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia have stopped transmitting data; yesterday there was a similar interruption from the Chernobyl site: the IAEA says it is "worried". Meanwhile Zelensky believes "that the threat of nuclear war is a bluff" by Putin. "Bombing a children's hospital is proof [...]

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The very latest on the crisis in the Donbass About 40 thousand refugees have fled the Donbass and arrived in the Russian region of Rostov. This was reported by the Interfax agency citing Alexander Chupriyan, interim minister for emergency situations. “More than 40 thousand people, who had to leave the neighboring regions, arrived in Russia. At this point […]

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(Di Marinella Pacifico, member of the Senate Foreign Commission ”) Focusing exclusively on the military crisis in Ukraine is an exercise which, if not read with the right lens, risks stalemate in the heart of Europe. In the rest of the globe equally important games are being played, such as to determine the geopolitical assets for the spheres of [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) A message appeared on most Ukrainian institutional computers: “Ukrainians, all your personal data has been deleted and it will not be possible to get them back. Be afraid, and expect the worst ". Thus the servers of important ministries such as that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Education were violated. Late yesterday [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Hypersonic technology, missiles and aircraft that can travel at a speed between 5.000 and 25.000 km per hour (between 5 and 25 Mach). The thermal effects, typical of hypersonic speeds, impose on these vectors aerodynamic arrangements such as to create strong shock waves in the atmosphere on which, thanks to the upward thrust, they glide for [...]

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Saudi Arabia is building its own ballistic missiles, with the help of China. This was supported by the US broadcaster CNN, which in an exclusive report states that US intelligence agencies have been informed about a series of clues collected, including satellite photos, classified. If confirmed, the hypothesis would complicate the situation in the Middle East, also modifying the strategic balance, [...]

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Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin spoke three times this year, the last time yesterday during almost two hours of remote interview via videoconference. The two countries to the east of the globe, anti-American par excellence, have long been pulling the strings to try to build a granite block to oppose the United States and the [...]

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With a parliamentary question, the deputies Enrico Borghi and Filippo Sensi ask for further information and repentance from Prime Minister Mario Draghi, being the National Authority for Security, Defense and the Interior on a contract entrusted to a Chinese company, Hikvision. “Hikvision has been accused of providing surveillance equipment to the internment camps. There is a [...]

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A group of foreign hackers, probably linked to China, has managed to breach at least nine American organizations active in strategic sectors, such as defense, energy, health, technology and education. This was announced in a report by the cybersecurity agency Palo Alto Networks, drawn up with the participation of the National Security Agency (NSA). This group of cyber criminals is not [...]

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Satellite images from the US company Maxar show that China, in a desert in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, transported, by railroad, models of US warships, such as aircraft carriers and destroyers. USNI News, a US Navy specialist site, said the facilities may have been built by the military [...]

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A process is underway in the United States that could have very serious diplomatic repercussions between Washington and Beijing. The court case concerns Yanjun Xu, also known as Qu Hui or Zhang Hui, who, according to American judges, appears to be the deputy director of an important division of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the agency [...]

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Joe Biden at the UN presents the new face of America that relies on a softer approach to global tensions. "A new era of relentless diplomacy" and "peace" in the world after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and ensures that America does not seek "a new cold war" with China, even if the warning remains [...]

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Yesterday from Ramstein Air Base in Germany, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and the head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, held a remote summit extended to 22 countries on the common approach to be held with the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan . On the same day, almost in response, Pakistan organized [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Turkey and Qatar today have become the referents of the Western world in Afghanistan, their diplomatic and intelligence network is growing day by day within the country. Main objective: to counter, as far as possible, competition from China and Russia, the only countries, together with Pakistan, which have kept open the [...]

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The Bloomberg news agency has revealed the contents of a US intelligence report according to which there are plans to create an autonomous mission center dedicated entirely to China. Today China is monitored by the center for East Asia and the Pacific, which focuses on a larger geographic region that also includes China. The idea [...]

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Since last May there has not been such a black day for world stock exchanges. A day to forget, all the stock exchanges were affected by the setback of Wall Street which yesterday closed in sharp decline due to the effects, not exactly exciting, of the new wave of Covid-19 cases, mainly linked to the spread of [ ...]

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Global plan for the prevention of future pandemics, a plan on infrastructures for low-income countries, these are just two of the main cornerstones of the strategy launched by the G7 countries to establish itself in the world trying to counter, as far as possible, the initiative of the New Chinese Silk Road. To support the new policy [...]

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The Israeli army has suffered the largest number of rocket attacks, around 2800 since Monday, more than during the escalation of 2019 and during the 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. The military of the Jewish state claimed to have hit the homes of several Hamas commanders and accused the [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Parts of the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere at 10:24 am Beijing time (0224 GMT) and landed in a position with coordinates at 72,47 degrees east longitude and 2,65 degrees latitude north. The news was released by the Chinese state media according to a statement from China Manned Space [...]

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Among the global challenges is that of domination in the missile field, a new strategic challenge that places the parties in strong competition to achieve world primacy. To clarify our ideas, an unpublished analysis, published on formiche.net made by General Pasquale PREZIOSA, today president of the Eurispes Security Observatory, former head of state [...]

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EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and High Representative Josep Borrell sent a jointly signed letter dated 21 April to the 27 EU heads of state and government. Attached to the letter was the report for the European Council which highlights the authoritarian turn of Beijing: "EU and [...]

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The New Silk Road - Belt & Road Initiative -, launched by China in 2013 and which affects 139 countries today loses Australia which canceled the memorandum of intent as it was considered no longer in line with its foreign policy. "This is another unreasonable and provocative move", commented Beijing through the [...]

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Negotiations for the export of Italian rice to China concluded: the Italian Embassy in Beijing announced today that all the Italian rice mills that had requested to export to China have been authorized by the competent Chinese authorities, applying the protocol signed between the two parts on 8 April 2020. With this last step, it is finally concluded [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) China is the largest bank in the world for developing countries and holds 65% of their debt, we are talking about nations and extended geographical areas such as Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. There are many studies carried out by industry institutes around the world in [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) With the start of vaccination campaigns around the world, the military sector is in a hurry to make its men immune from the virus. The US, Russia and China have already started mass vaccination of their military before other categories of the population to show that the priority is to maintain [...]

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The agreement between Eni and the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission (ICC-NDRC) promotes collaboration between Eni and Chinese energy players. The General Manager of the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, Dr Huang Yong, and the Chief Executive Officer of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Why do the Chinese not get sick anymore from Covid-19 today? A good question, a question that many of us ask ourselves by looking at the images via social media of Chinese TVs that show the population walking around the street without a protective mask. An oddity? I would say no, they arrive before the others because [...]

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The British are almost as spied on as the Chinese, a team of independent researchers carried out a study that revealed the existence of around 5,2 million CCTV cameras across the country. The report compiled by CCTV.co.uk shows that there is one camera for every 13 people in the UK today. According to activists [...]

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China launched a new mission to Mars a few hours ago, more ambitious than the previous ones. The Long-5 rocket took off at 12:40 pm from Hainan Island, south of China. Hundreds followed the launch on the beach on the other side of the cabin. "This launch is hope, strength," said Li Dapeng, co-founder of [...]

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According to Reuters, the Chinese government has raised the flood alert to the second highest level in response to the danger of flooding due to the numerous downpours that continue to affect the regions along the Yangtze River and, in particular, the eastern provinces of Jiangsu and Jiangxi which, according to the media [...]

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The long-distance confrontation between China and the US continues, in fact, according to what was reported on reuters, China has made it known that it would be "happy" to participate in the trilateral negotiations on arms control with the United States and Russia, but only if the United States were willing to reduce its nuclear arsenal by bringing it back [...]

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(by Francesco Matera) The Associated Press agency, yesterday, published on its website a series of documents of the World Health Organization, referring to last January, when the director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus openly praised the cooperation of the Chinese in the exchange information. In great secrecy, however, the Organization officials were very worried about the delays and [...]

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(by Marco Zacchera) In recent months of Coronavirus there has often been talk and writing of a substantial inefficiency and political dependence of the World Health Organization towards China and increasingly embarrassing details have gradually emerged about this "world bandwagon" that party to protect health in the world has become a great [...]

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Il Giornale reports the news that the Italian Ferretti Group wants to invest in the port of Taranto - the former Belleli area - to create a sector dedicated to the construction of fiberglass and carbon hulls and superstructures and a research center engaged in the study of models and molds . The prestigious Ferretti Group, founded in Bologna in [...]

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(by Marco Zacchera) We must seriously address the problem of relations with China both in terms of commercial and strategic aspects and to understand how the Coronavirus was born and evolved. This not only to outline any Chinese responsibilities, but above all for our future since it is yet another epidemic that "starts" from [...]

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Relations between the United States and China are increasingly tense. Donald Trump continues to point the finger at China for delaying the provision of coronavirus data. The latest statements by the US president are very heavy, even more so than the previous ones, defining the pandemic "the worst attack ever against the United States, worse [...]

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(by Maurizio Giannotti) The Guardian reports that China will begin testing payments in its new digital currency in four major cities next week. In recent months, China's central bank has stepped up development of the e-RMB, which is set to be the first digital currency managed by a large economy. In accordance to […]

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The Time reports in an article that the Chinese People's Army is allegedly recruiting soldiers who are not afraid to die in battle and obey orders without asking questions. Let's talk about "robots". Very soon battalions of military robots will be deployed to fight alongside humans. Beijing's goal is to have, in this sector, [...]

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According to the British newspaper The Guardian, analysts from British intelligence agencies, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Security Service (MI5), have signaled to policymakers that the Chinese government is promoting the narrative that their Covid-19 contrast system was more effective and successful than [...]

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Today two special flights: one from Milan to Rome and one from China with a load of over 360 thousand masks The air rescue machine does not stop to face the Covid-19 emergency. Air Force aircraft and crews, already at the forefront from the early stages for the transport of patients in bio-containment, are engaged [...]

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The US administration is considering expelling dozens of Chinese diplomats and journalists from the country, as they are believed to be undercover spies. Earlier this month, the Chinese government announced the expulsion of 13 American journalists from three major newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Beijing has imposed on [...]

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(John Blackeye) So, at a certain point of a not so cold winter, the news arrives late from China that a lethal virus is infecting the population of Wuhan which for us was an emeritus unknown city but which we understood at our expense, be a large commercial center, with more than eleven million [...]

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Yuanyuan Zhu was in the gym in San Francisco on March 9, as he was about to do his last workout, a man started yelling at him, offending her about the epidemic that broke out in China. She immediately left the gym and headed for the bus stop. It was followed by the same "screamer" who, close to the [...]

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(by Vanessa Tomassini correspondent from Tunis) Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a large family of respiratory viruses that can cause mild to moderate illnesses, from the common cold to respiratory syndromes such as MERS (Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome) and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) . They are so called because of the crown-shaped tips on their [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The contents "screamed" by the leader of the Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni on a Fb video that has totaled more than 7 million views have not gone unnoticed by those who have to check on the so-called "family jewels". We are talking about those national assets and assets of a strategic nature that in a moment of emergency [...]

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(by John Blackeye) We had already understood for years that Italy had become a Chinese colony and that we had put the reins of the world in our hands, this was also a well-known fact. We also remember that before the arrival of the epidemic the Italian government had started to set up an information campaign and [...]

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China has decided to send substantial aid to Italy. In a phone call between Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and his counterpart Wang Yi this morning, it was discussed the opportunity to start a major health and technological cooperation between the two countries in favor of Italy, which is now facing the 'Coronavirus emergency […]

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Last week, a Chinese warship fired a laser beam at an American reconnaissance plane in the Philippine Sea, 600 kilometers west of the island of Guam, one of the territories of the United States and the headquarters of several military bases. The US Navy in a statement revealed the incident. Ships from [...]

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"It is essential that we as the international community wake up to the challenges posed by Chinese manipulation," US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in Munich at the international security conference. Esper then urged world security leaders to "wake up" and pay more attention to China's efforts to influence the economy [...]

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This morning at 07.00 at the military airport of Pratica di Mare, the KC-767A aircraft of the Italian Air Force landed, coming from China, which brought back to Italy the last of our compatriots who asked to return to Italy. Unlike the other two flights, with which Italian citizens were transported from [...]

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A communication from the Ministry of Health of Egypt reported that there is a patient infected with the new Wuhan coronavirus. He is a foreign citizen, but his nationality has not yet been specified. Local media speak of a 33-year-old Chinese. The arrival of the coronavirus in Africa complicates the situation because the systems [...]

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Doctors at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome have isolated the coronavirus. This was announced by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, underlining the importance of the operation: "Now we have many opportunities to study, understand and better verify what can be done to block the spread". The discovery, functional to the future development of a vaccine, "will be made available" to [...]

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He left. The Boeing KC767A of the 14 ° Stormo of the Italian Air Force this morning at dawn detached the wheels from the runway near the Roman coast to head towards China. https://www.facebook.com/150994628399911/posts/1480227765476584/?vh=e After about 11 hours, the aircraft will land in Wuhan to carry out a delicate mission that in just over 30 hours will bring home about 67 [...]

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A KC767A aircraft belonging to the 14 ° Stormo dell'Aeronautica Militare will be the only Italian carrier authorized to leave on Monday for China. Under the coordination of the crisis unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, through the Defense Staff - COI - Operational Command of Vertice Interforze - together with the Ministry of Health [...]

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The World Health Organization, Reuters reports, has just declared that the coronavirus epidemic in China now constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director general, announced the decision after a meeting of his emergency committee, an independent group of experts, after evidence that the virus has [...]

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The Space 19+ ministerial conference, organized by ESA - European Space Agency - last November in Seville highlighted the need to start gradually increasing the budget for the 22 member countries. The desired increase is expected to reach approximately 45%, equal to 14,4 billion euros over the next three years. An effort, writes the Sole24Ore, which [...]

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What would happen if one of our countrymen abroad were infected? Fortunately, or foresight, we have a unique ability worldwide. (Andrea Pinto) Italy, together with Great Britain and the United States is the only nation in the world that possesses a very special and essential capacity in modern times, safe air transport in bio-containment. A capacity [...]

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Trump does not mince words and speaks of a phenomenal understanding: "Buy new tractors, a great season for business is coming". The Chinese will buy $ 197 billion worth of American goods over the next two years and the US pledges to buy $ 156 billion worth of Chinese goods. The dead line of 19 [...]

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Massimiliano Cannata on Eurispes.it did a wonderful review on the book; "The defense of Europe", by Pasquale Preziosa and Dario Velo. Today more than ever we need Europe, we need to believe in and pursue concrete actions to find a true and credible European identity, an identity which, in the light of the latest events in the Middle East - [...]

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The New York Times reported that Russian military announced last Friday that it had deployed a hypersonic weapon that manages to escape American missile defense systems, kicking off a new chapter in the long arms race between the two most important nuclear powers. in the world. American officials are hesitant about [...]

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Didl Tang Beijing in The Times told of Xi Jinping's dream: "China as a world leader by 2050". When war broke out in Yemen in 2015, a Chinese frigate docked at the port of Aden and, under armed escort, evacuated hundreds of Chinese citizens to Djibouti. The success of the military operation has shown the world of [...]

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(by Pasquale Preziosa) Who will defend the Europe of tomorrow? There is no answer to this question, none of the European countries has a precise idea and any innovative initiative triggers, in European countries, the spring of conservatism, creating stagnation of thought. According to the founding fathers, European countries will have to live together to avoid further disasters after two [...]

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Deputy Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen announced yesterday that China and the United States have reached an agreement to close the so-called "Phase One" of trade negotiations. Existing duties of 23% on 230 billion Chinese exports will remain in force and duties on the other 7,3 billion will be reduced to approximately 120%. [...]

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Beijing has ordered all government offices and public bodies to remove foreign equipment and software within three years. A fatal blow to HP, Dell and Microsoft. The government directive requires Chinese buyers to switch to home technology providers. The news echoes Trump's announcement to curb the use of technology [...]

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In these days in London the NATO summit to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the signing that sanctioned the constitution. A summit that promised to be red-hot due to the recent utterances of French President Macron: "NATO is in a kind of brain death" and due to the fierce attitude of Donald Trump who [...]

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Soon #Gazprom will announce the start of liquefied gas supplies to China through the “Power of Serbia” pipeline. With this work, Russia is preparing to conquer world leadership in the distribution of energy, in particular of liquefied gas. As Bellomo writes in Il Sole 24Ore, the Russian move will tend to [...]

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China last Thursday successfully completed a crucial landing test in northern Hebei province ahead of a historic unmanned exploration mission to Mars next year. China is on track to launch its mission to Mars, said Zhang Kejian, head of China National Space on Thursday [...]

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International police cooperation - joint patrols Italy - China Fourth year of collaboration between Italian police forces and the People's Republic of China Joint patrols with Chinese police operators in Italian territory will resume today for the fourth consecutive year. Italy is one of the three countries that carries out a project with China [...]

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La Stampa interviewed NATO Secretary General Jean Stoltenberg who illustrated the situation of the International Organization in the face of emerging and future challenges, with a detailed focus on Russia and China. Prudent about the Turkish intervention in Syria but determined to denounce Russian interference in Europe and to ask the allies for greater efforts to deal with [...]

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The seventh edition of the Military World Games will take place in Wuhan (CHINA), from 18 to 27 October 2019, an event organized every four years by the International Military Sports Council (CISM) and in which about 10.000 athletes from over 110 nations will take part. , which will compete in 28 sports disciplines. Italy will participate in the event with [...]

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In a move that observers describe as unprecedented, a U.S. government regulation committee is likely to recommend halting construction of an 8.000-mile undersea cable connecting America with China over national security concerns. Washington, to date, has never stopped the construction of [...]

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The ongoing anti-government protest in Hong Kong, for the twelfth consecutive weekend, has escalated into violent clashes between demonstrators and police, with the dropping of two Molotov cocktails at agents in Telford Plaza and the use of tear gas against the crowd outside the Ngau Tau Kok police station. It reports [...]

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Hong Kong has revealed that Beijing systematically runs large-scale, high-tech disinformation campaigns, including in English and outside the country's borders. Yesterday Twitter and Facebook, censored in China but active in Hong Kong, blocked a thousand profiles linked to China, used to generate "chaos". A sample of [...]

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"China cannot afford to let Hong Kong become a catalyst for pressure and revolt in the name of true democracy." Father Bernardo Cervellera, PIME missionary (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), director of the specialized agency Asia-News, profound connoisseur of the Chinese world (the Asia News website has an edition in Mandarin [...]

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For the fifth consecutive day, the main terminal of Hong Kong airport was occupied by demonstrators despite the deployment of greater security measures that unsuccessfully tried to keep out the demonstrators who, shouting "Hong Kong fights for freedom", forced the protection belt. Even today, the airport authorities have [...]

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According to reports from CNN, at least 5.000 demonstrators have occupied Hong Kong airport to protest against the local government and China. Many of them wear eye patches, in protest of a demonstrator being injured in the eye on Sunday by a rubber bullet. [...]

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The Minister of Agricultural, Food, Forestry and Tourism Policies, Sen. Gian Marco Centinaio, received the new Chinese ambassador to Italy LI Junhua in Rome today to talk about the future relations between Italy and China in the field of tourism and agro-food. “We are now working on the 2020 Italy-China Year of Culture and Tourism. For […]

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Liaison Officer and Attaché of 23 joined together to talk about safety. China, USA, Mexico and Japan among the participants Common policies and intervention plans, support for new forms of collaboration, strategies to fight crime, this is the agenda for law enforcement representatives, present today at the operational meeting, organized by the Management [...]

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The Chinese Air Force has made public a photo of the stealth fighter, J-20 which has become, as some Chinese analysts claim, a military fighter already operational for the defense of the country. The existence of the aircraft is nothing new as it was already known, however the photo released last week shows a J-20 with the number [...]

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergej #Lavrov yesterday at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the countries that make up the #Brics bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), who met in Rio de Janeiro, commented on the American policy in the field of defense and security, the interview was taken up by the #Tass news agency: "The development of plans [...]

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The Guardian, New York Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung reported the results of an investigation that reveals suspicious activities of the Chinese border police. Apparently it requires the control of tourists' mobile phones to "collect" all data and load a "spy" application. "Fēng cǎi", which can be translated as "Bees that collect honey" is the secret operation [...]

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Angelo Ferrari on AGI talks about Chinese dominance in Africa. In recent days, West African countries - most of them former French colonies anchored to the infamous currency (the CFA franc) linked to the euro and guaranteed by the French treasury - have been able to equip themselves with their own currency, thus abandoning the CFA franc. All this emerged [...]

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The United States will not impose new tariffs on goods imported from China, Donald Trump said at the G20 in Osaka, on the sidelines of the meeting with Xi Jinping. “For the foreseeable future we will not impose any more tariffs on China. We will work together with China. They will negotiate and start spending money in the US, ”the American tycoon told reporters. [...]

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Third year of collaboration between the Italian and Chinese Police Forces in joint patrols The number of Italian visas for China increases, thanks also to greater trust and security Joint patrols between the Italian and Chinese police forces return to Beijing, the innovative project that brings the two countries together in [...]

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After the probable "stop" to supply the # F-35, Turkey is increasingly looking to the Russian #Sukhoi jets, or the Su-57, a direct competitor of the F-35. The news was reported by the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak. The Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter aircraft is a single-seat stealth multi-role aircraft designed for air superiority and [...]

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China wants to legislate and regulate the production, flight testing and launching of commercial rockets. This was reported by Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the Chinese National Space Administration, during a speech at the China Aerospace Conference. The need is due to the fact that the commercial segment has become an important part of the Chinese space industry. In the days [...]

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(by Antonio Gaspari, www.frammentidipace.it) A new world is emerging. Faced with trade wars, price speculations, threats of tariffs, sanctions and territorial disputes, China and Italy have indicated a new path made of cooperation and investment, technological innovation, cultural progress and environmental protection. A strong signal in which China and Italy, the East and [...]

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Researchers from Japan and Europe are trying to develop next-generation mobile network technology, ahead of 5G technology, the Italian news agency Nova reports. The post-5G era, which to this day is still limited to the conceptual sphere, should involve data transmission speeds over the air at speeds of at least 1000 times [...]

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On the occasion of the summit between the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, Paris and Beijing signed a series of agreements covering various sectors, such as aerospace, energy and agri-food. In total there are 14 agreements signed before the two presidents, for a total value of several tens of billions of euros. [...]

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Mise Undersecretary Michele Geraci told Bloomberg, as reported by Il Foglio, that "The memorandum with China speaks of telecommunications, not Huawei". The undersecretary was explicit: “5G has nothing to do with this MoU. Telecommunications are across the board, telecommunications is not the same as 5G, 5G is [...]

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According to the Financial Times, China expects to conclude the trade talks scheduled for this week before addressing the issue related to US requests to ease restrictions on technologies. The White House has made it known that the talks between the US negotiator Robert Lighthizer and the [...]

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There are 29 agreements included in the Memorandum of Understanding signed today in Villa Madama between China and Italy during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Italy that in fact mark the birth of the New Silk Road. The signature was placed in the presence of the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, and [...]

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Italy is the first G7 country that decides to do so, but also the fifth in the European Union. The former minister explains in an interview with “La Stampa” that Angela Merkel is right when - she did so at the last Davos summit - she says that the future of all of us is around shared institutions. This agreement [...]

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It is very interesting what the Chinese media write about Italy and about their president's trip to our country. Italy is one of the first countries in the world to do sci-tech cooperation with China. In 1978, the two countries signed an agreement in Rome for the exchange of funds for researchers, knowledge and sci-Tech. The fields […]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The delegation of Chinese President Xi Jinping is made up of at least 500 people. Security measures in the capital have been increased beyond belief and the two ceremonials are on the verge of a nervous breakdown: there is also discussion about the number of pens to be placed on the tables of the various meetings. After various ups and downs, between [...]

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The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella gives the green light to the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the New Silk Road, after a working lunch at the Quirinale. Sitting at the table, the prime minister Giuseppe Conte and the ministers Luigi Di Maio, Matteo Salvini, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Giovanni Tria, Elisabetta Trenta and […]

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Khalid al-Falih, Saudi oil minister, speaking of the next OPEC + meeting scheduled for next April, said that the United States and China will formulate a healthy global demand for oil later in the year but that it is still too early to change OPEC policy. According to the forecasts expressed by the minister, global demand [...]

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Zhang Yesui, spokesman for the National People's Congress, said it is China's intention to increase military spending for the country's protection without this posing a threat to any country. "An appropriate increase in the defense budget is necessary to protect national security and to transform the Chinese military with characteristics [...]

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China, according to the New York Times, is monitoring the Muslim minority of Uighurs by collecting their DNA samples and fingerprints, as well as scanning their faces and voices. Between 2016 and 2017, approximately 36 million people would have participated in the program known as Exams for all: formally a check-up [...]

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The death toll involved in the collapse of a mine in China is serious. According to Chinese media reports, at least 21 workers died in the collapse of a coal mine in northern China The accident occurred yesterday in Shenmu, in the province of Shaanxi, the heart of the [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Since the US primacy in the world, as a global police force, is fading or is no longer what it once was, the international order is today more than ever in chaos. World leaders are increasingly tempted to test the limits of international law to strengthen their influence and [...]

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A face to face on trade between the United States and China is expected next January, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced. Gao Feng, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said that the "intense" telephone contacts had so far will continue even during the Christmas holidays. Bloomberg, last Wednesday, reported that [...]

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The renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding between MIPAAFT - ICQRF and Alibaba was signed today in Milan, in the presence of the Minister of Agricultural, Food, Forestry and Tourism Policies, Gian Marco Centinaio, and the President of Alibaba Group, Michael Evans, the largest e-commerce platform in the world. The agreement, lasting two [...]

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As reported by askanews, the United States intends to present, this week, a new strategy to strengthen its presence in Africa and counter the growing influence of China and Russia on the continent. The plan, prepared by the White House National Security Council, will mark a change of course for the administration, eager to [...]

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Il Giornale reports that for years China has had an "enveloping" trade policy in place through the detection of important sea ports for container traffic. Beijing aims to conquer Europe. It began with the acquisition of Piraeus in Greece, with Zeebmgge in Belgium and now they aim at the Italian port of Trieste. TO […]

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The Bureau of Industry and Security, in a proposed regulation, announced on November 19, decided to establish guidelines that regulate "the criteria for identifying emerging technologies that are essential for the national security of the United States". The objectives are linked both to security and to the protectionism of American industry, in particular [...]

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(Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States Navy has had no more rivals able to fight it on the Oceans, at least until today. However, the numerical overtaking took place: 317 naval units against 283, and so at the end of 2017 the Navy of the People's Liberation Army became, surpassing that [...]

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The advance of the terrible Typhoon Mangkhut continues unabated, which after sowing death and destruction in the Philippines is now heading towards China where it has already registered the first victims. Mangkhut leaves the Philippines on its knees, and a death trail where 64 deaths are counted but it is feared that the number could rise up [...]

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The tension on tariffs between China and America does not decrease. According to an important economic newspaper, Donal Trump will announce in the coming days a new wave of tariffs to hit the import of Chinese products worth around 200 billion dollars. The tariffs will probably be around 10%, below [...]

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According to the press office of the Russian Defense Ministry, Vladimir Putin, who arrived at the Tsugol training center, not far from the border with China and Mongolia, attended, together with Defense Minister Serghiei Shoigu and Chief of Staff Valeri Gherasimov, at the main phase of the "Vostok-2018" exercise, the largest exercise performed in [...]

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Gordon Sondland, the new European Union ambassador, sent to Brussels, said that the United States and the European Union must overcome trade disputes in order to resist and tackle China's economic aggression together. Sondland, citing concerns such as Chinese overproduction, state subsidies and rules requiring foreign companies to share their know-how with Chinese companies [...]

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One of the longest gas pipelines in the world - the Power of Siberia - created to bring Russian natural gas to China has been 93% completed. According to Gazprom, the main Russian energy producer, 119 gas wells operating in the Chayandinskoye field, in Yakutia, have been completed, more than [...]

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(Giovanni Bozzetti Ambienthesis spa) From January 1, 2018, new environmental standards have come into force, established by Beijing, which introduce stricter rules on the standards of recyclable waste that will from now on be imported into China. Post-consumer plastics, PET from bottles, bags, PVC from shampoo bottles and [...]

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China has launched a platform, which includes a mobile app, which allows the public to report "rumors online" and even use artificial intelligence to identify false reports. At the same time, Beijing breaks down socially destabilizing content. The launch of the platform comes as Beijing intensifies efforts to oversee the Internet, especially the social media used [...]

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A Pentagon report reports that the Chinese military has stepped up their bombing training against the United States and its allies. The assessment, which comes when relations between China and the US are very tense, was contained in an annual report that underlines China's efforts to increase its [...]

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According to an estimate made by the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, at least one million "Uighurs", a Muslim minority, are currently detained in political indoctrination camps. For the Committee, which stated it had received several reports of torture, "the detentions are extra-legal, with no legal representation allowed throughout the [...]

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If Italian business owners struggle to leave behind the economic difficulties suffered in recent years, the foreign entrepreneurs present in our country, on the other hand, are in good health. At least in terms of numbers, the latter continues to increase. As of December 31, 2017, the CGIA Research Office informs foreign entrepreneurs (shareholders, owners, administrators, [...]

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“For a long time, China and Iran have had open, transparent and normal trade cooperation in the fields of business, trade and energy, which is reasonable, fair and legal. This does not violate the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council or the international commitments promised by China, nor does it harm the interests of anyone [...]

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Google intends to launch a version dedicated to search engines in China to re-enter a thriving market that was abandoned eight years ago due to problems with the Chinese Great Wall, the state digital wall that does not allow free floating between the "bits" of the network. The plan comes as China has stepped up [...]

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Trade war, cyberwarfare and regional domination are the new frontier in the global confrontation between the US and China. A question and answer between the two superpowers trying to move like a mirror on the international chessboard. The country of the Dragon is increasingly present in Latin America, the country of eagles, on the other hand, wants to increase its presence in the Indian Ocean and [...]

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A car bomb driven by a suicide bomber exploded at the entrance to the Chinese embassy in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. According to some witnesses, a strong explosion was heard near the US embassy in Beijing. The dynamics are not yet clear nor the number of people involved is known. The testimonies speak of a number [...]

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After the American withdrawal, the European Union, China, Russia and Iran confirm their commitment to respect and fully implement the provisions of the Iranian nuclear agreement. This was announced by Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative, at the end of the ministerial meeting that took place today in Vienna. During the meeting, the participants also expressed [...]

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The tough financial confrontation between the US and China now turns to black gold. In fact, as of November 4th, the United States plans to ban the purchase of Iranian oil and all transactions with the Central Bank of Tehran and financial institutions that violate these sanctions will lose access to payment systems based [...]

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The tariff war between the US and China does not stop and, on the contrary, risks opening new worrying scenarios in the trade of some agri-food products. According to what was announced by Coldiretti, "the prices of corn and soy intended mainly for animal feed on the Chicago commodity exchange, the main world reference point, collapse with the spread [...]

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Chinese media reacted strongly after the administration of US President Donald Trump said it would impose sanctions on $ 50 billion worth of Chinese imports, but some comments leave room for further negotiations. On Friday, China said it would impose an additional 25% tax on 659 goods imported from [...]

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It is no coincidence that the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was organized while the G7 is taking place in Canada. It is also no coincidence that Trump had talked about the G8, trying to include Russia, among the greats of the earth. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional alliance led by China and Russia, of [...]

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A billion dollar fine and the inclusion of American personnel in the company's management. Thus ended the "war" between the US government and the Chinese telecommunications company ZTE. The telecommunications components and cellular hardware company of the People's Republic of China was accused of selling its products to "enemy" countries [...]

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China announced, following a high-level meeting with US trade officials on Sunday, that the talks will have no effect if Washington goes ahead and enacts tariffs on Chinese imports. The statement came an hour after a meeting between US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross […]

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Total received an "ultimtum" from the Iranian authorities. Two months to obtain exemption from sanctions by the United States, before being replaced by the Chinese CNPC in the contract for the development of phase 11 of the South Pars natural gas field. At stake is the extraction of natural gas from the largest point [...]

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According to a report written by the Canadian spy agency, China's influence in New Zealand is so extensive that it threatens traditional secret contacts between New Zealand and its Western allies. Since World War II, New Zealand has been a member of the "Five Eyes" alliance (security agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States, which [...]

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Joint patrols with Chinese police officers will begin today, for the third consecutive year, under the aegis of the International Police Cooperation Service of the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police. As already happened, the Chinese policemen, in uniform and unarmed, will be joined by personnel from the State Police and the Carabinieri, and [...]

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France confirmed the arrest of two French intelligence agents accused of spying for the Chinese government. The two officers appear to have been captured and indicted last December. However, their arrests were not made public at the time, as French counterintelligence officials wanted to avoid alerting other members of [...]

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The US State Department has warned its personnel stationed in China of the danger of using sonic weapons "unusual acute auditory or sensory phenomena accompanied by unusual sounds or piercing noises". The warning, issued on May 23, led to comparisons with similar phenomena reported by US diplomatic personnel in Cuba in [...]

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Washington and Beijing ever closer to reduce the trade deficit with targeted measures. This was announced by the White House in a press release, after the "consultations" held yesterday and Thursday in Washington between the American delegation and the Chinese delegation. Meeting wanted and according to the indications of both the president [...]

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Chinese intelligence agents gave a former US Central Intelligence Agency officer "hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash" in exchange for classified information. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, on January 15, accusing him of possessing classified information that included lists of real names […]

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According to Defense News, China is positioning an airbase on the coast of the East China Sea, adding structures that potentially allow it to permanently place fighter jets closer to Taiwan and islands of which China and Japan claim ownership. Satellite photos taken in April show that the construction of 24 new [...]

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Yesterday China carried out a new and extensive military exercise around the island of Taiwan, using the new Sukhoi Su-35 fighters, H-6K strategic bomber fighters, J-11 jets and KJ rapid alert aircraft. -200. Sukhoi Su-35 fighters and H-6K strategic bombers flew over the Bashi channel, located between the island [...]

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According to an official indictment, a CIA operative who was arrested in January of this year for violating the espionage law shared classified information with China. The FBI arrested Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, on January 15, accusing him of possessing classified information that included lists of real names (foreign nationals [...]

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US prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Chinese tech firm Huawei has violated US sanctions in relation to Iran, according to sources who follow the story closely. Since at least 2016, the US authorities have been probing the alleged shipment of products of US origin by Huawei to Iran [...]

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to China to strengthen bilateral relations. Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi announced the news that the Indian Prime Minister and President Xi will meet on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 April in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Confirmation […]

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Europe will not find itself in the middle of the trade dispute between the US and China, a senior European official said today, adding that the EU's temporary exemptions from US steel and aluminum tariffs should become permanent. European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici stated that trade is [...]

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The head of Germany's domestic intelligence office warned of the security risks posed by Chinese direct investments in German high-tech companies and other European companies. Since 2012, Hans-Georg Maassen has been director of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, National Security and the Counterintelligence Agency of Germany. Speaking [...]

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Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg on Friday heavily criticized the US administration's growing trade protectionist measures warning that they could lead to "regression, war and conflict." "A global trade war and growing protectionism are the last thing the world needs now," Solberg told the annual national conference of [...]

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China and Russia agreed to foster bilateral ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who met with Chinese councilor and foreign minister Wang Yi yesterday and accepted the Chinese invitation for a state visit in June. Wang, who is also a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, expressed [...]

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The Taiwanese government has publicly acknowledged for the first time that a Chinese general, who was executed by Beijing in 1999 for espionage, was indeed one of its spies. The military officer was Liu Liankun, a Chinese People's Liberation Army logistician, who headed the general logistics department. However, China has arrested [...]

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China, in response to the tariffs that the Trump administration has applied on steel and aluminum imports to the US, has now imposed duties on 128 US products, worth 3 billion dollars. Among the taxed American goods, pork and fruit. The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that [...]

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According to the Chinese Xinhua news agency, Namibian President Hage Geingob currently in China for a state visit, said China is not colonizing Africa and that the growing cooperation between the world economy number two 2 and Africa benefits both sides and said he was optimistic about the future of cooperation [...]

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Customs officials in Shenzhen South China Technology Center arrested a group of criminals using drones to smuggle 500 million yuan ($ 79,8 million) worth of smartphones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, a local newspaper reported. official. The authorities arrested 26 suspects who used [...]

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Japan is probing with the North Korean government the possibility of organizing a bilateral summit, the Japanese newspaper Asahi reported today. Kim Jong Un's government has informed the leaders of the Korean Workers' Party of North Korea of ​​the possibility of a summit with Japan, the newspaper said, citing sources [...]

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Tomorrow, international stock exchanges will have to pass an important exam in anticipation of the close of the first quarter. Trump's $ 60 billion trade tariffs and Facebook affair will continue to create the turmoil that affected world markets last week. Wall Street on Friday closed, in fact, in [...]

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A vast military exercise carried out by the Chinese Air Force has concluded, which saw aircraft engaged in the China Sea and the Western Pacific after crossing the southern islands of Japan. China is carrying out an ambitious program of modernization of military, naval and air vehicles, directed and supervised by President Xi Jinping. In [...]

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According to Chinese media reports, Vice Premier Liu He in a conversation last Saturday with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that "the United States has broken trade rules with an investigation into intellectual property and China will defend its own interests ”. The comparison between Mnuchin [...]

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According to what was reported in a circular released yesterday by the Civil Protection and addressed to all Ministries and Regions, the uncontrolled return to the atmosphere of the Chinese space station 'Tiangong 1', the first Chinese experimental module, launched from the Jiuquan center in 2011, “it could affect the national territory”. The period at risk indicated in [...]

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The Chinese-based multi-purpose social media app WeChat has been banned by the Australian military for security reasons. It means that the aforementioned smartphone app will no longer be used by the Australian military. In an official statement, released earlier this week, the Australian government's defense department said the ban [...]

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The UAE and China have signed two deals for the Chinese national oil company to acquire stakes in two UAE offshore concessions in an effort to strengthen bilateral economic cooperation. The agreements were signed by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and [...]

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Despite warnings from US trading partners, Donald Trump has formalized his decision to impose import taxes of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum. With the signing of the two decrees, Trump imposes import duties on steel and aluminum "pardoning", however, the main US allies. The new duties will be effective in 15 days [...]

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Chinese Finance Minister Xiao Jie, on the sidelines of the National People's Congress during the annual parliamentary session, declared that China is "fully confident" of its ability to prevent systemic debt risks, stressing that the debt / GDP ratio of the China fell to 36,2 per cent at the end of 2017 [...]

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The Kuaizhou-11 low-cost, solid-propellant light carrier rocket, developed by China Aerospace Sciences and Industry Corporation (Casic), will make its first launch this year, putting heli-synchronous satellites into low Earth orbit. This was announced by the Chinese news agency "Xinhua", according to which the new rocket will allow launches at the cost of less [...]

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China is ready to enact a new law to "promote and protect foreign investments in the country", to encourage the opening of its economy. This was announced by the spokesman of the National People's Congress, Zhang Yesui, on the eve of the opening of the annual plenary session of the highest Chinese legislative body. Zhang explained that they will be coordinated and [...]

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The standard on laser equipment sets requirements in terms of functionality, testing and terminology, according to the newspaper. The standard was drafted by the China Electronics Standardization Institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the China Electronics Chamber of Commerce, and the television producer Hisense. Sales of laser televisions in China increased by [...]

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The Chinese government yesterday expressed its support for Pakistan's fight against terrorism, and urged the international community to evaluate Islamabad's efforts on that front in an "objective and impartial" manner. The government and the people of Pakistan have sacrificed a lot in their fight against terrorism and accomplished great [...]

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A study published in the journal Science Advances and carried out by Chinese, French and American scientists, reveals that Beijing has a chance to solve the pollution problem and return to breathe air similar to that breathed before the economic boom of the 80s translated into unprecedented levels of pollution. The airapocalypse that hit 70% of the 74 main Chinese cities in the winter [...]

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Leonardo today announced the signing with Sino-US Intercontinental Helicopter Investment, distributor of Leonardo's civil helicopters in China, of new contracts for 26 helicopters, including seven AW119Kx single turbines, 15 AW109 Trekker light twin turbines and four AW139 intermediate turbines, for a total value of over 120 million euros. Helicopter deliveries will start this year [...]

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The duties imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump on aluminum and steel, in addition to hitting China, could damage one of the main allies of the United States: Canada. The duties on imports of the two metals, announced at the beginning of the month by the Commerce Department, will eventually be confirmed by the president by mid-April, [...]

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(by Giovanni Calcerano) The Chinese railway police are using special sunglasses, equipped with facial recognition software, to identify and capture suspects in railway stations in Zhengzhou, the capital of the central province of Henan. These glasses, aesthetically very similar to the Google Glass that has been talked about so much in recent years, were [...]

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Apple will soon be in business with a Chinese company, Yangtze Memory Technologies to purchase flesh Nand memory chips. The conclusion of the deal would be a first by Apple against a Chinese chip maker. For Yangtze Memory, a relatively small and little-known Chinese state-backed company, securing a deal [...]

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The Morocco and China discussed here on Friday intend to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the infrastructure sector. The Moroccan Minister of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water, Abdelkader Amara, and the Chinese Deputy Minister of Commerce, Qian Keming, examined the current bilateral initiatives in infrastructure development, exploring the prospects for a future [...]

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The chief editor of the Russian National Defense magazine, Igor Korotchenko, told the Xinhua news agency that the new nuclear policy, recently announced by the United States, showing its ambition for global domination, will destabilize the world by damaging the existing system of control and balance. . "This is a strategy of intimidation and threats, including the use of nuclear weapons, [...]

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Apple announces that it will open a new data center in China, in the remote northern autonomous region of Inner Mongolia. According to the Xinhua news agency, the city of Ulanqab will host the new center. The Cupertino giant already last July announced the opening of the first big data research center in China, in the province [...]

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Apple will accept China's mobile payment app Alipay in its local stores, strengthening its ties with the giant e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding, as a push from the iPhone maker to revive growth in the world economy. The bond will make Alipay, managed by Ant Financial, an Alibaba affiliate, the first payment system [...]

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The country that has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world should take the initiative to follow the trend of disarmament instead of going against it, ”the Chinese Defense Ministry said today. The US military believes its nuclear weapons are seen as too large to use and want to develop low-yield bombs. [...]

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China has expressed its strong opposition to the new nuclear strategy with which the United States intends to strengthen its war deterrence, foreseeing an expansion of the arsenal thus putting an end to the era of Obama who had instead committed to a containment of the nuclear potential. The Chinese Defense Ministry said the document [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) In recent days, the Trump administration seems to have intensified its economic aversion to China's aggression. Ahead of his visit to five Latin American nations, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday railed against Beijing, accusing it of "using economic force to drag the South American region into [...]

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The first official meetings in China of the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, who intends to start negotiations to conclude a new trade agreement with Beijing, are scheduled for today. May herself announced it to reporters aboard the Royal Air Force during the journey to Wuhan where the signing of agreements is expected [...]

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The head of the Arab League Parliament chaired a meeting between Arab parliamentarians and a Chinese joint delegation, in order to have an exchange of views on international issues and strengthen cooperation between China and the Arab world. The central theme was the decision of the United States to recognize Jerusalem as its capital [...]

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Kerry Brown, professor of Chinese studies and director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London, said that Brexit, with a "liberating effect" on Britain, could create an opportunity to strengthen ties between China and Britain and potentially give rise to a new partnership. According to the professor, the official visit in [...]

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According to the Nova agency, the approval rate of Chinese leadership in global affairs exceeded that of the United States in 2017, according to the latest survey published by the US company Gallup; the survey, which assessed the perception of US leadership in over 130 countries, found in 2017 a decline to 30 for [...]

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President Donald Trump's national security team is examining all options for countering China's threat of spying on US phone calls, including those from the government. The option is 5G super-fast wireless networking, an administration official said today. The official, confirming the existence of a relationship of [...]

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China's first online sharing platform for integrated circuits and microsystems was launched by a state-owned enterprise. The platform, initiated by China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), allows the public to access the CETC intellectual property database, software tools and production line. The platform welcomes other [...]

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A consortium of Chinese companies has been awarded an important project to build an oil refinery with a capacity of 300 barrels of oil per day and a petrochemical complex overlooking the southern Iraqi province of Basra. The oil ministry of the Arab country announced today through a statement. The project will be carried out [...]

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Customs data from 2017 shows that Chinese coal imports from Russia and Mongolia increased compared to 2016. The two countries closed a supply gap caused by a series of trade sanctions on North Korea. Imports from Russia would have increased by 36,3 percent from 2016 to 25,3 [...]

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(by Pasquale Preziosa) China is present in 48 African states, out of the 54 recognized, and is conducting a well-structured investment policy similar to those already in place in Tunisia and discussed in another article. This cannot be new for geopolitics. Already since 1949, the date of the constitution of the Republic [...]

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(by Pasquale Preziosa) China has been pursuing an investment policy on a global scale for some time. In Africa it is present in 48 states out of the 54 recognized total. "Geography prevents China from playing the role of a global strategic player" [1], it lacks water and arable land. Its economic policy, despite its structure [...]

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Chinese authorities will demolish 40 square kilometers of alleged illegal facilities in Beijing, a decision that will impact thousands of underpaid workers in the middle of a road. In addition, Mayor Chen Jining announced, quoted by the BBC, "we will continue with the closure of small shops operating from illegal openings in the wall". Already last November, [...]

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Unsurprisingly, the accident involving the Iranian oil tanker that sank off the east coast of China last week is turning into a major environmental disaster. The pouring of the crude oil present in the tanker into the sea has tripled, in just four days, the polluted area of ​​the water, taking it from 101 square kilometers, [...]

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China's economic performance exceeds market expectations in 2017, but will the bullish moment continue into the new year? A moderation in GDP growth is the widespread opinion among global investors given a high basis of comparison, while a more balanced and sustainable economy should take shape more quickly. The Chinese economy totaled 82,7 [...]

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The year of tourism between China and the EU will begin Friday in Venice, with both sides promoting travel and bilateral ties. In a congratulatory message at the opening ceremony, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang expressed the hope that the two sides will see the year of tourism in China-EU as an opportunity to actively expand the [...]

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For the Chinese who often wonder if they are descendants of a historical figure with the same surname, genetic testing can now give them a scientific answer. Beijing Somur Technology, a start-up genetic technology, unveiled a DNA testing service this week that can help people find out where […]

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In the report accompanying the 2017 results, drawn up by the Beijing Institute, it is highlighted that "The national economy has maintained its momentum and solid and stable development". In 2017, investments in the real estate sector grew by 7%, slightly down by one decimal compared to the 2016 figure, while fixed investments [...]

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Sunday's People's Liberation Army (PLA) newspaper ran an article by Liu Qianting, daughter of astronaut Liu Boming, about her father's flight to Shenzhou-7. Liu Boming, Zhai Zhigang, and Jing Haipeng took part in the Shenzhou-7 mission in 2008, during which Zhai took the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut. [...]

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Apple, in order not to lose an important slice of the market, has adapted to the new laws and has confirmed that iCloud services in China will be managed by a Chinese company starting next month. For the Cupertino company, this is a necessary decision to act in line with Chinese regulations. Apple contacted [...]

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According to reports from the BBC, 32 people are missing after the collision between an oil tanker and a cargo ship, which occurred not far from Shanghai late Saturday evening. The Panamanian flag tanker "Sanchi", managed by the Iranian company Glory Shipping, which transported 136 thousand tons of condensed oil to South Korea collided [...]

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Washington has called for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss the situation in the Islamic Republic after the demonstrations in recent days. While Moscow, (also flanked by China), said it was against, accusing the United States of interfering in the country's internal affairs, and threatened to ask for a procedural vote to try [...]

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Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has suffered reputational damage for its customer data management due to growing privacy concerns in the country. Alibaba's subsidiary Ant Financial had to apologize after users said they felt cheated into allowing the Alipay service to [...]

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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) At the Dubai air show 2017, China showed many of its aerospace products: the Chinese stand was one of the largest and most attractive. Many aeronautical products had many similarities to the latest generation Western ones, others had a more original physiognomy, however the perceived message was "great investment in progress [...]

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Europe will find itself forced to pay a higher oil bill, while Russia transfers more of its supply to the Chinese oil market. As the world's second largest economy buys more, crude oil shipments from the port of Primorsk in the Baltic region will be cut, according to industry consultant FGE. The reduction will push [...]

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Russian oil tankers have supplied North Korea with fuel on at least three occasions in recent months, transferring cargo overboard, according to two major Western European security sources, providing an economic lifeline to the Communist state. Sales of petroleum products from Russia, the second largest oil exporter in the world and [...]

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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) Forecasts are the main tool for planning the future. The transformations of global trends and the new directions of the behavior of states can be identified through geopolitical analysis. Geopolitics can identify what may happen and when, with the due limitations that refer to the complex behavior of [...]

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China signed 16 free trade agreements with 24 other countries and regions in 2017, according to information released this week at the National Business Conference, Nova reported. During the year, the country approved the creation of new free trade zones (Free trade zones, […]

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Beijing voted in favor of the latest sanctions against North Korea's nuclear and missile program, centered on cutting crude oil supplies. Too bad that photos taken by US spy satellites show Chinese oil tankers alongside Pyongyang tankers to tranship crude oil at sea. This happened at least [...]

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The United States announced repercussions for the two North Korean officials working behind their country's ballistic missile program on Tuesday, while Russia reiterated its offer to mediate to ease tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. The new steps of the United States were the latest in a campaign aimed at coercing Korea [...]

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Japan is considering restructuring the Izumo aircraft carrier so that it can land U.S. stealth fighter-type F-35B fighters, government sources said, as Tokyo faces China's maritime expansion and North Korea's nuclear and missile development. Japan has never had a complete aircraft carrier after the defeat of the Second [...]

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The new AG-600 amphibious aircraft, the largest in production in the world, of complete Chinese design, made its maiden voyage today. According to the Xinhua news agency, it took off from the southern city of Zhuhaj and landed after making a flight of about an hour. The "Kunlong" plane, this is his [...]

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As reported by the Nova agency, the Chinese Navy hospital ship "Ark of Peace" dropped anchor over the weekend in Dili, the capital of East Timor, where it will remain for eight days as part of a friendship visit to the small Asian country, providing "humanitarian medical services", according to Beijing state media. The visit to [...]

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The Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Ma Kai, in Italy for a state visit, went to the Pininfarina headquarters in Cambiano (Turin) where he was received by the CEO Silvio Pietro Angori and the team of the Design and Engineering Center. The delegation visiting Pininfarina was made up, among others, of the Chinese ambassador [...]

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An Indian drone violated Chinese airspace and crashed, causing a protest in Beijing. This was reported by the deputy head of the military operations office of the Western Command Zhang Shuili. "India's move has violated China's territorial sovereignty and we are strongly opposed to this," Shuili said, according to [...]

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“We took a hangover, the success of the past years made us think we could go around the world telling stories in a somewhat naive way. This wine country is unable to tell itself in a unique way. Today we have to find a way to get together, we need to centralize the way of [...]

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The digital economy alone generates nearly a third of China's gross domestic product. This is supported by a report presented by Beijing at the annual Chinese conference on cyberspace. The report presented yesterday in Wuzhen by the Chinese State Academy for Cyberspace Studies claims that last year China's digital economy generated a [...]

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In Beijing, the Italian Prosecco made the "boom" and is increasingly appreciated in the world. The Italian Embassy in China organized a seminar to promote one of the best known symbols of Italian style. The seminar was an opportunity to promote the candidacy of the Prosecco Hills in Conegliano and Valdobbiadene as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as well as [...]

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As highlighted by the Nova Agency, expand the forms of collaboration in strategic sectors such as maritime transport, industrial settlements, trade, scientific research and culture. This is what the institutional visit to China of the president of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Debora Serracchiani, is planned, scheduled from 1 to 7 December between the capital Beijing [...]

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According to the Nova Agency, Russia has stated that it will provide $ 2,75 billion by 2025 for the development of the Arctic continental shelf and for the economic development of the surrounding areas. Russia will explore polar oil and infrastructure construction jointly with China having already underway construction of [...]

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China and Djibouti yesterday agreed on the establishment of a bilateral strategic partnership and the strengthening of cooperation in all sectors. The announcement came on the sidelines of a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Djiboutian counterpart, Ismail Omar Guelleh, on an official visit to Beijing. Guelleh is the first African leader [...]

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After the US Treasury Department's decision to impose sanctions on thirteen Chinese and North Korean organizations on suspicion of helping Pyongyang circumvent UN Security Council sanctions, China reiterates its opposition to unilateral sanctions but at the same time she says she is ready to "handle the issue in [...]

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A few hours before the visit of the Chinese special envoy to North Korea, Pyongyang made it known, through the editorial of the "RodongSinmun" regime, that "issues concerning the national interest and the security of the citizens of North Korea cannot be subject to negotiation. The conclusion that our Armed Forces and the people have reached through the [...]

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(by Roberta Preziosa) Relations between the two countries that seemed to be proceeding quietly, at least after the Chinese president's visit to Washington last April and the most recent official visits, could change and return to the previous phase of the war on imports. The problem is always North Korea and since last [...]

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The world's first 2-ton displacement cargo ship with electric propulsion, developed by a Chinese company, was launched on Sunday in Guangzhou, in the Chinese province of Guangdong. This was reported by "China News" - According to Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Ltd., which built the boat, the ship is able to travel 80 kilometers [...]

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(by Maurizio Giannotti) Since the early years of the new millennium, peoples and countries of this planet have been hit by crises of all kinds that are increasingly difficult to govern. These crises bring profound and radical changes which increasingly manifest themselves in a very dramatic way. The stability achieved with no little effort after the end of [...]

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According to the Nova Agency, the Soubré hydroelectric dam in the south-west of the country will be inaugurated today in the Ivory Coast. During the ceremony, the local press reports, President Alassane Ouattara will operate the fourth and final turbine of the plant. The plant will have a capacity of 275 MW. 85 percent of the works, worth [...]

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American President Donald Trump, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, will be engaged on a state visit to China from 8 to 10 November. This was announced by the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Lu Kang, who, in a statement said: "The two heads of state will have a profound exchange of views on major global issues [...]

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The new Chinese president Xi Jinping was placed by the XNUMXth Chinese Congress on the same level as Mao Zedong. There will be a new Politburo to lead the country over the next five years. The most interesting fact is that a successor to Xi Jinping has not been named and this will give free rein to the current leader [...]

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According to reports from Nova, it is now increasingly difficult to distinguish the boundaries between online and offline and TV series and reality. Just as you attribute a 'Like' on social networks or stars on review sites to evaluate a hotel or restaurant, so soon you will assign scores to citizens based on the [...]

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American policy, which has always traced the future of behavioral trends in the various countries of the world, is at a turning point for the globalization process that has been the mantra of the past period. It all stems from the new national security policy of the United States, where security means the solidity [...]

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wished Chinese President Xi Jinping "great success" after he was renamed secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. In the note released by the KCNA news agency, Kim expressed "sincere congratulations" on his second term at the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the message Kim [...]

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The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) confiscated the illegal earnings and imposed huge fines on people involved in an insider trading case. Three people were named in a statement released by the CSRC: they would have taken advantage of the knowledge of a series of acquisitions of Shenzhen Hengkang Medical Group Co .. Ltd. […]

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According to what was communicated to the G20 in Washington by Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the Central Bank, the Chinese economy grew on a regular basis and could confirm the 6,9% recorded in the first months of 2017. According to the governor, the strengths of the Chinese economy are currently represented by the rapid increase in exports and imports, by a […]

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The statements on the sidelines of the Russian-Chinese briefing are for the press and half true. As we know, US missile defense is structured on a global network of sensors to detect and track any launch against American targets. Coverage is based on several sites around the world and in space. The satellite constellation [...]

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According to reports from Nova, China and Russia have urged all interested parties to avoid any provocative action that could aggravate tensions on the Korean peninsula. A statement arrived on the occasion of the eighth Sino-Russian consultation on the security of Northeast Asia chaired by the Chinese Foreign Ministry Kong Xuanyou and the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov. [...]

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Iran is respecting the nuclear deal, the words of the Head of the IAEA The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) of the UN, the Japanese Yukiya Amano has made clear that Iran is respecting the nuclear treaty signed in 2015. His words confirm the data of a report of the same international organization published [...]

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China, construction of the most complicated infrastructure project The construction of the railway tunnel of Dazhunshan, in the province of Yunnan, in southwestern China, considered the most complicated infrastructure project ever carried out by the eastern country, has entered its final phase. The works, which had to be completed in 2014, were slowed down by geographical conditions and [...]

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North Korea: vice president Morozov, Pyongyang tests long-range missile North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile that it believes could reach the west coast of the United States: Russian Vice President Anton Morozov, just returned, has announced it from a visit to Pyongyang. According to the Russian news agency "Ria [...]

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Leonardo announced today that the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) has purchased an AgustaWestland AW169 intermediate light helicopter, with delivery scheduled for early 2019. The helicopter will be equipped with a special configuration a support of scientific exploration activities in the polar environment and will be used for passenger transport, monitoring [...]

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The diplomatic efforts made by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to open a line of communication with North Korea and attempt to negotiate the shutdown of Pyongyang's ballistics and nuclear programs are "a waste of time". This was declared on Sunday by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who disavowed the secretary [...]

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According to Nova, China's Economic Regulator has approved nine new official public operations, from which a maximum of 4,5 billion yuan (over 500 million euros) will be raised. Four companies will be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, one on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the other four on ChiNext. From the suspension of the hypo [...]

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Trump in November in China, Xi Jinping will be a "wonderful" visit Chinese President Xi Jinping, in reference to the visit of US President Donald Trump, told Secretary of State Tillerson, who is visiting China today, that it will be a special visit. wonderful and successful. As is well known, relations between the two countries seem [...]

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WhatsApp uses part of a security protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, a company that has its own “app” signal for completely secure messaging. Now that WhatsApp has end-to-end encryption, no party - government, police, hackers, other users - can intercept and read messages anymore. WhatsApp advertises this news, that is [...]

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Chinese Ambassador to Rome Li Ruiyu today opened the ceremony for the 68th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic and recalled the opening, next month, of the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. China aims at "peaceful development and a new model of international relations based on mutual benefit". which will mark a [...]

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The Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies announces that the meeting between Deputy Minister Andrea Olivero and the delegation of the State Wheat Administration of the People's Republic of China led by Deputy Minister Zhang Wufeng took place this morning. "The strategic partnership between Italy and China - declared Deputy Minister Andrea [...]

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In application of the new sanctions established by the United Nations against the Kim Jong-Un regime, China has announced that it will limit exports of refined oil to North Korea starting from 4 October. According to what emerges from the US UN mission, Beijing provided North Korea with XNUMX million [...]

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Russia active to interfere with elections in Germany: German intelligence at work to prevent hybrid attacks The Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LFV) warns that in the elections in 2017 (parliamentary elections of 24 September 2017) and 2018 (election state in Bavaria in autumn 2018) strengthened the websites of [...]

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Signed today in Beijing an important preliminary agreement for the strategic development of a new series of four-wheeled light commercial vehicles. The agreement was signed by Piaggio President Roberto Colaninno and by the CEO of Foton Motor Group, Wang Jinyu. The agreement provides for the establishment of a working group made up of the two countries [...]

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At the conclusion of a meeting in New York that took place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the Chinese and Russian foreign ministers have launched an appeal for a "peaceful solution" to the North Korean "vicious circle". Beijing's chief of diplomacy, Wang Yi, and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, asked all parties involved [...]

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Moscow and Ankara have reached an agreement on the supply of Russian-made S-400 anti-missile aircraft to Turkey. The contract has already been signed and a first payment has already been made, as anticipated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The delivery of these devices to Turkey satisfies the geopolitical interests of the Federation [...]

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China has announced a series of investments to fund seismic research on plate tectonics in earthquake-prone regions. "Annual funds of 30 million yuan (about 4,6 million dollars) will be allocated for the research program over a five-year period," explained the head of the seismological office [...]

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China will address economic and trade issues with North Korea to contribute to the "stability and denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula, in line with United Nations resolutions. This is the position of the Beijing Ministry of Commerce, confirmed today at a press conference by spokesman Gao Feng, a few hours after the telephone interview [...]

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Tension skyrocketing on the Korean peninsula. A few days after launching a missile that flew over Japan, North Korea conducts its sixth nuclear test since 2006, the most powerful yet, and announces that it has tested a hydrogen bomb with "perfect success". A decisive escalation in the tension between Pyongyang on the one hand, [...]

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New provocation from North Korea. After the launches of two Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on 4 and 28 July capable of hitting the US, Pyongyang would have carried out its sixth thermonuclear test by detonating, this time a hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is feared , in an underground site. Explosion identified thanks to the shock caused [...]

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The American reaction to North Korean provocations did not delay, American strategic bombers and stealth fighters flew over the Korean peninsula, reports the South Korean news agency Yonhap. Four F-35B stealth jets and two B-1B strategic bombers today carried out training maneuvers together with Seoul Air Force F-15K fighters in response to continuous missile launches […]

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The strange trend dubbed the “heart shaped boob challenge” started earlier this month in China: girls shape their breasts into a heart shape (taking care to hide their nipples), and then take a selfie to post online. In a few days, the new fashion has literally exploded on the most popular social network of [...]

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The United Nations Security Council condemned North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile, which flew over Japan. At the end of an emergency meeting, the 15 members of the UN executive approved a declaration in which the test is defined as an "outrageous" threat and asks [...]

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Millions of Japanese woke up to an alarming message from the government, on cell phones and via email, urging them to stay indoors and seek refuge because a North Korean missile was flying over the territory. The sirens sounded on all the locations located in the trajectory of the ballistic missile, which flew over Japanese territory [...]

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The Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, pilot officer of the Italian Air Force, the first Italian to inhabit the ISS, beating the European record of 199 days in space, joined 16 Chinese 'taikonauts' for training nine-day survival at sea off the coastal city of Yantai, China. [...]

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The merger between the coal giant Shenhua Group and the fifth Chinese electricity producer China Guodian Group is underway, leading to the birth of the world's first energy group. This was reported by the Reuters agency. To announce the operation, which comes at the end of months of negotiations, was the government commission for the control of assets. [...]

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Chinese manufacturer Great Wall would be interested in purchasing the brand from FCA. The news is reported today on the Automotive News website. It would have been the president of the Asian carmaker himself, Wang Fengying, with an e-mail message to communicate it to the site, saying he was "in contact with FCA". For his part, however, no [...]

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The American president signed a decree that, in fact, authorizes the launch of investigations into China to ascertain that there are no violations of intellectual property and the theft of technology, with the aim of "protecting American workers" and combating and fight "piracy". For some time, President Trump has been watching with [...]

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Facebook tries to get around the restrictions imposed by Beijing and launches an app in China without its name. For Mark Zuckerberg this is an unprecedented move after having tried for years the path of 'diplomacy', through meetings with Chinese politicians, the study of Mandarin and interventions in public. Attempts that have not [...]

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Chinese scientists have created the largest insect in the world in the laboratory. This was reported by the official Xinhua agency, according to which it is an insect itself 64 centimeters long, which in size has exceeded its mother, holder of the previous record. The monster-specimen of 'Phryganistria Chinensis' - this is the scientific name of the insect - was by researchers [...]

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Human traffickers in the Mediterranean used old disused fishing boats from Algerian and Tunisian fishermen. Since the soldiers of the various international military missions have begun to destroy these precarious boats, the "migrants boats" have come out "afloat". This is the name of the strange rubber boats made to measure for migrants that you can easily buy [...]

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This was announced yesterday by General Precious in an interview with the Nova Press Agency. Today the inauguration with great fanfare of the naval logistics base in Djibouti. As is well known, Africa has been paying attention to China for years and has been investing in the black country for years, especially in Nigeria. So today China has officially opened in Djibouti [...]

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The American administration is now fed up with the umpteenth challenge to the world launched by North Korea with the latest ballistic missile. The words of the American Ambassador to the UN thundered: "it is useless to hold an emergency meeting if it leads to nothing", said Nikki Haley, underlining how so far North Korea has violated all the resolutions of the Nations "with impunity" [ ...]

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The Italian group Italdesign has signed a partnership agreement with CRRC Guangzhou Electric Locomotive. The Italian company has joined forces with the Chinese transport giant to produce a new tram for Guangzhou, which with its 14 million inhabitants is the third most populous city in China. The tram, which will enter [...]

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The headquarters of the International Monetary Fund could be relocated from Washington to Beijing. This was stated, as a possibility, by the director general of the institute Christine Lagarde at the Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington, on the day in which the institute updated its economic estimates by reducing those of the USA and raising those of Italy, Lagarde has […]

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The premier of Serbia, Ana Brnabic, had a meeting in recent days with the chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National People's Congress, Zhang Dejiang, who is visiting Belgrade. According to a statement from the Serbian government, the two interlocutors agreed that the friendship that binds the two countries is the [...]

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In 2016, trade between Italy and China exceeded 38 billion euros, with Italian exports worth over 11 billion euros, up by about 6% compared to last year. Italy is the third European destination for Chinese investments and 168 Chinese groups have already invested in our country, especially by participating [...]

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On Tuesday 18 July 2017, at 10.30 am, the presentation of the eighth edition of the Annual Report, "China in 2017 - Scenarios and perspectives for businesses", prepared by the Business Studies Center of the Italy China Foundation will take place at the Foreign Ministry ( CeSIF). The Annual Report, published by the Italy-China Foundation, is among the most important "outlook" on China [...]

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Diplomatic sources have reported to AGI that a delegation from the Chinese Ministry of Transport will arrive in Trieste on the occasion of the "14th Implementation Meeting of Eu-China Maritime Agreement", a multilateral body born in 2002 and operational since 2008 which aims to improve the conditions of intercontinental maritime transport. The delegation will also be composed of [...]

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