The dollar is the global centerpiece; even the RMB is pegged to it. Despite everything, few people trust another world currency. The prices for China’s trilemma and its strategies. The Summer Palace Y...

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The global market: conquer it, banish it, or integrate it. Modern times impose an unprecedented trilemma on China. Beijing may want to fudge it, but there is no way around it. The Chinese Communist Pa...

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Sulle polemiche contro il papa su AI l’impressione è che Peter Thiel, grande patron di Palantir, l’industria leader dell’intelligenza artificiale della sicurezza, sia un provocatore culturale, non qua...

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The spread of cryptos and their new uses alongside the traditional US dollar create new challenges for the global system as debt and inflation mount. The evolution of money is intertwined with that of...

Internationally, it’s fine; domestically, less so. As issues mount, Beijing should use this lull to address them, or they’ll become impossible. Unless the world goes to hell in the next couple of year...

A pochi giorni dall’incontro del 24 settembre alla Casa Bianca tra Donald Trump e Xi Jinping — secondo vertice tra i due leader nel 2026, dopo quello di maggio a Pechino — il rapporto tra Stati Uniti ...

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The extreme right’s win in Germany poses an existential problem: what is the truth, and what are the limits of representation’s power? Like a century ago, the answers matter to the world Catholic writ...

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L’Italia sembra soggetta al martirio dell’incomprensibile dibattito sulla legge elettorale, qualcosa che interessa i quattro gatti in Parlamento ma che non ha alcun impatto sulla vita delle persone, o...

After the AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt the heads of the Christian confessions will closely monitor and critically assess the respect of the rule of law in the region. It’s a call to all Christians in ...

Gallagher’s mission to Russia marks the Vatican’s diplomacy coming of age. It may need permanent structures to fill the void left by the UN’s weakening. The visit to Moscow by the Secretary for Relati...

The rise of Germany’s AfD and Italy’s Vannacci brings back the temptations of WWII. It’s easy to fall for easy answers to complex questions. Yet the alternative is even simpler: do Europeans really wa...

L'ascesa dell'AfD in Germania e di Vannacci in Italia riporta a tentazioni da II Guerra Mondiale. È facile cedere a risposte facili a domande complesse.

L’esplosione poco prima dell’alba, intorno alle 4:15 di questa mattina, 2 settembre, alla stazione ferroviaria di Augusta, in Germania, potrebbe aumentare la tensione in tutto il continente. Secondo l...

Le recenti pressioni del sottosegretario della Guerra americano Eldridge Colby sui Paesi Nato riguardano il programma di riarmo dell’Ue e hanno due aspetti. Uno è la velocità e l’entità del riarmo di ...

Tomorrow’s meeting between Archbishop P.R. Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov could be crucial to resolving the war between Russi...

Chronicles of wars and the search for broad theories converge on the US difficulties in striking tariff deals and the march to the Chinese Party Congress, where Xi could accrue more power than Mao The...

By Francesco Sisci and Shawn D. Mathis In the 20th century, the US emerged victorious from World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Yet today many in America and abroad speak as if the country wer...

By Francesco Sisci and Shawn D. Mathis In the 20th century, the US emerged victorious from World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Yet today many in America and abroad speak as if the country wer...

Beijing may believe that Donald Trump’s 2016 election and his return to office eight years later are not accidents but part of a deeper American current.

Relazioni e scenari su Cina e Iran. Conversazione di Marco Mayer con Francesco Sisci

The absence of Iran's supreme leader, doubts about his condition and internal power divisions are turning the country into a failing state — spreading

La posizione espressa da Giuseppe Conte sull’Ucraina è insostenibile nel merito e nel metodo. Per quanto riguarda il metodo affidare alle primarie di coalizione per la leadeship le decisioni sull’Euro...

La complessità politica della “invasione” di decine di migliaia di marocchini nella enclave spagnola in nord Africa di Ceuta dimostra come il fenomeno dei migranti non sia semplicemente una questione ...

The 2027 Party congress could expand the president’s controls. He is winning, but he faces internal and external pressures. The international muddle helps him, though it’s very tricky. The Chinese Com...

In an article published in First Things, Peter Thiel continues his campaign to warn against the Antichrist and herald the end times. Drawing on his recent lectures in Rome, Thiel calls upon a Catholic...

Can Christ help us speak with the world and understand it better than its opposite? It’s a matter of the AI revolution and the rule of law. The techno-billionaire Peter Thiel is fascinated by the anti...

Il senatore Luigi Zanda sul Sole 24 ore del 18 luglio non ha fatto un discorso di destra o di sinistra, ha parlato alla nazione. Anzi, l’ex presidente del PD ha affrontato temi tradizionali della dest...

Beijing may have to decide where to draw the line and cut its losses in Ukraine. It may not want to follow Putin into the hole he has dug for himself. Russia’s war in Ukraine has exacted a toll unprec...

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Beijing has a clear, long-term strategy to survive and win a global power competition. It has nimbly adapted to setbacks. The US seems less clear. Asians may decide to move on the PRC alone.  China an...

Le regole della politica internazionale non sono fissate da leggi con sanzioni, giudici e tribunali. Sono fatte di rapporti di forza, di promesse, di impegni rispettati o meno, di preoccupazioni e di ...

Kyiv’s military progress against Russia is changing a global political calculus, and Europe will never be the same. America needs to deal with it. Something significant is happening in Ukraine, and it...

Il tono era irritante e gratuito, tarato per solleticare i votanti e contribuenti della grande pancia americana. Ma il tono non deve nascondere la sostanza. Il segretario della guerra americano Pete H...

Peter Thiel faced heavy criticism from Italian theological circles aligned with the pontificates of Pope Leo XIV and his predecessor, Francis, during his lectures in Rome on the Antichrist. The critic...

MH mostra una Chiesa che pensando agli uomini e all'umanità pensa anche agli stati e ai loro leader che altrimenti sarebbero persi.

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On the eve of Trump’s visit to China, the outline of a new Cold War looms larger. Only the Holy See might help. In November 2011, President Barack Obama launched the historic “Pivot to Asia.” After ce...

Can the UK bridge the widening transatlantic gap? Beyond Trump’s intemperance, many American complaints about Europe are real and are driving the old continent adrift. Can King Charles bring new unity...

The US and Iran have reached a plateau where they could really negotiate, as the power balance in Tehran evolves. Meanwhile, China’s game could be at a turning point, and the Pope is in it. In a twili...

Sull’Iran, la Cina è stata finora abbastanza neutrale. Diversamente che con l’Ucraina, Gaza o il Venezuela, Pechino non ha preso posizione

Gli Stati Uniti si trovano in una posizione difficile riguardo a Hormuz, ma la Cina si è recentemente fatta coinvolgere, e la sua situazione potrebbe non essere molto migliore. Qualche giorno fa, un u...

Nella Prima Repubblica, con quadro politico stabilissimo, al di là delle scosse frequenti, dopo ogni voto si faceva una profonda discussione ed esame di coscienza. Questi frequenti esami e la “panchin...

Yesterday in New York, Gerard O’Connell and Elisabetta Piqué presented their book, The Election of Pope Leo XIV: The Last Surprise of Pope Francis, published by Orbis Books. Fordham University’s Cente...