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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‘The only way not to go mad was to drink the blood of the communists we were killing: if you can drink their blood you know you can do anything’. This is not a line from a Quentin Tarantino film, but the testimony of a militiaman of
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Myanmar continues in a free fall towards the abyss: the country, led since February 2021 by the criminal government of General Min Aung Hlaing, after the coup d’état that overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and repressed dissent with brutal violence, is increasingly in
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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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A wild, swampy and inhospitable island until two hundred years ago, Singapore is now a place where glass and concrete skyscrapers coexist with alleys teeming with rickshaws. It is the planet’s economic capital, futuristic par excellence, the one that boasts the most records for design, efficiency,
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Shein. Not a household name for anyone over 30. During the pandemic, his low profile, his being shrouded in mystery, made him the most popular global ultra-fast fashion retailer[1], deified by teenagers squeezed by the economic crisis. In the space of a couple of years, Shein has
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A little over a hundred years ago, the idea of mass-produced automobiles seemed unthinkable, and yet it happened: but scientific and industrial progress continues to accelerate, and today we are already facing a new prospect: the self-driving car. A self-driving car (autonomous vehicle, self-driving car, robot car)
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We often hear about global warming, the greenhouse effect, rising seas, without giving due weight to these phenomena. Living in the part of the world that depends on the whims of the fossil fuel magnates, we rejoice in recent months if man-made climate change causes longer summers
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Taiwan is a nation in the balance. Much more so than the state of Israel ever was. Since the international agreement for its independence (1948) [1], the island of Formosa has always looked fearfully across the channel, dreading the day when Chinese armies would annihilate Taiwanese democracy.
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CH The need to improve the planet’s logistics networks continues to grow, especially with the increasing uncertainty over peace and the availability of energy and mineral resources. Especially on African soil, which offers the greatest possibilities and is the most backward, a real race has broken out
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