Sir Walter Raleigh, an English navigator and poet, who lived in the mid-1500s, sentences: ‘He who dominates the sea dominates the commerce of the world, and to him who dominates commerce, belong all the treasures of the world and the world itself’[1] . The quotation sounds like
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Ever since the dawn of the Socialist Republic of China, in Mao’s time, individual characters had brilliant careers and then suddenly disappeared – and the public, perhaps a couple of months later, was told that they had fallen ill, resigned, died. Poof. This time it happened to
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Since her election as Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni has been engaged in a feverish programme of international visits, as she evidently considers the rebalancing of Italian alliances and positions a priority. Surprisingly, Meloni’s Italy is pro-European and pro-American – in fact. And that is why the trip
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Kissinger, the centenarian, is greeted by the Chinese government as an old associate with whom they have travelled a long and winding road together. Indeed, the common road of the 20th century between the US and China is built on the efforts of the then National Security
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The war in Eastern Europe erases, in the perception of the individual, what is happening locally, in countries considered to be extremely neighbourly. Yet it is precisely in these countries that changes are taking place that are altering the history of the entire planet. In Africa, for
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After years of passive and silent participation, Italy decided on 3 May to activate its participation in the International Seabed Authority (ISA), and to organise a high-level meeting between ISA Secretary General Michael Lodge, Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci, Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, and Undersecretary of
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In the US mid-term elections in January 2023, Ron DeSantis, a Republican, was re-elected as Governor of Florida. In his state, he managed to win seats in areas traditionally held by Democratic candidates. He did this by waving the flag of religious extremism, managing to
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One year into the war, who is winning it? Militarily, Kiev has managed, thanks to Western support, to hold out. But commercially and diplomatically, despite the economic sanctions imposed by many countries, things may be different from what they seem. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s trips to
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While the eyes of the world are on the Russian-Ukrainian border and that between China and Taiwan, conflicts of planetary importance are being fought as if it were pointless to worry about tomorrow. There is a geographical axis, running from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Cabinda, the Angolan
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Europe is in a deep crisis. Exactly as it was a century ago, Sarajevo could be the stage on which the spark that led to world war was ignited. It is a small spark, for now, a local conflict between three ethnic groups that have always been
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