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• Alea iacta est – The Sino-Russians have crossed the Rubicon

  By albertobor on May 10, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  “I am sure that as long as they are re-educated, the Taiwanese public will become patriotic again.” Listen to the interview of Lu Shaye, ambassador of China in France. For the less willing, the offending and scandalous parts begin in… Read More ›

• Sino-Russian notes

  By albertobor on March 23, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  “The creation of the North Atlantic military alliance and the location of numerous military bases around the world lead us to consider the United States as anything but a pacifist country. This is also demonstrated by Washington’s rejection of all… Read More ›

• The days of the locusts

  By albertobor on March 17, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  What would be the counterpart of the wolf warrior, the modern Beijing diplomat? China Daily, the tabloid of the Communist Party of China, has given us the answer. The wolf warrior, just, good and generous, must fight against a group… Read More ›

• Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, parallel lives and destinies

  By albertobor on November 26, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  There are nine months between the dates of October 7, 1952 and June 15, 1953, the days when Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping came into the world. They will be the children of a generation that will see the socialist… Read More ›

• Xi Jinping at the court of Andrea Alciato

  By albertobor on October 27, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Is China’s red emperor really the most powerful man in the world? The Chinese Communist Party Congress has crowned him for life and recognised him as a dignity equal to that of Mao Zedong. The Chinese press celebrates him as… Read More ›

• China – Autocracy and decoupling technical tests

  By albertobor on May 20, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  We have noticed that the embrace with China had become suffocating in the last twenty years. The West universe of consumers and China the factory of the world. We started with modest and low value-added materials and products, to refine… Read More ›

• The “Fondaco” of business and commerce

  By albertobor on March 10, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  There was a place in Venice called the Fondaco dei Turchi where one traded with the enemies. While the Serenissima and the Ottoman Empire were fighting on the seas, business continued in the Santa Croce district. Death and trade were… Read More ›

• Pax Mercatoria and illiberal political systems: Russia and China

  By albertobor on March 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The concept of marker pax mercatoria is defined by political scientist Jim Chen, a professor at Michigan State University, who claims that the market and globalization can produce system stability: “In the public sphere, pax mercatoria represents the peace dividend… Read More ›

• Dancing cheek to cheek… the new chapter of Sino-Russian relations

  By albertobor on February 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Sino-Russian relations have never been as good as in recent weeks. The Chinese silence on the Ukrainian quarrel has played a good role in the diplomacy of the Kremlin. In the background, the Beijing Olympics and Putin’s interview with the… Read More ›

• The Ukrainian bluff. How the Atlantic West yielded Russian gas to China

  By albertobor on February 13, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  A new chapter and friction between the blocks in the conflict over energy. On the one hand China and its dependence on coal, on the other, the west and its stormy relations with Russia on the western borders. With Russian… Read More ›

• Reading John Rawls in Shanghai

  By albertobor on December 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  I got to know the work of John Rawls when Salvatore Veca, professor of Political Philosophy during my university years, introduced it to Italy by promoting the first translation of the classic “A theory of justice” published by the American… Read More ›

• Green & war economy – a reasoned reading

  By albertobor on November 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The China Daily announces that China is the country in the world that has the greatest sensitivity to the protection of bio diversity. At the same time, the crisis in the cost of natural gas forces China to increase the… Read More ›

• The reason for the discussion on the Tobin tax in China

  By albertobor on October 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Tax every major financial transaction for social equity by a fraction and allocate the funds to redistribution initiatives. The Tobin tax is the shattered dream of the anti-globalist left, even if its history is slightly more complex. Formulated in 1972… Read More ›

• A lesson in political economy on investments in China

  By albertobor on September 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Paul Krugman, the eminent Nobel laureate in economics, recalls how companies are different from nations and their reasons. Business managers have different perspectives. It is economists – not managers – who place the question of foreign trade, the balance of… Read More ›

• Beijing and the myopia of the left in the West

  By albertobor on August 13, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  A few years ago, the economist and historian Giovanni Arrighi published a curious text entitled “Adam Smith in Beijing”, which attracted the interest of geo-political enthusiasts. Arrighi, who left us in 2009, had a truly unique career path. At his… Read More ›