This chapter focuses on Italy’s domestic politics to argue that Rome used the BRI MoU as a tool to strike a tactical entente with the PRC to leverage Beijing’s resulting goodwill in order to extract the economic concessions that had long eluded Italian policy-makers.
[IT] L'intervista a Enrico Fardella (ChinaMed, T.wai& John Cabot University) nell'articolo "Quali opportunità per il dialogo tra Usa e Cina" su Formiche.
[IT] Giovanni B. Andornino (T.wai & Università di Torino) presenta il nuovo numero di OrizzonteCina "Nuova era e relazioni internazionali. Pratiche e discorsi di una Cina in ascesa" nella puntata de "La Rivista" sulla Rete Due di RSI – Radiotelevisione Svizzera.
The visit to Saudi Arabia made by the Chinese President Xi Jinping caught the attention of the media around the world. Against this background, the data collected by the researchers of the ChinaMed Project were cited by Isabella Borshoff in her article "China Moves into the Gulf" in The Wire…
[IT] Nella Cina della "Nuova era", la ricerca di un adeguato status internazionale rappresenta una componente essenziale dei processi di legittimazione politica interna. "Rialzatasi" nell'era di Mao Zedong e “arricchitasi” nell’era di Deng Xiaoping, la Cina di Xi Jinping ambisce ora a “rafforzarsi” internazionalmente.
“Meloni viaggia in Cina come primo ministro italiano e presidente del G7. Se la decisione di non rinnovare il memorandum d’intesa sulla Bri risponde a un legittimo riallineamento dell’Italia sulle posizioni degli altri paesi del G7 — le cui relazioni bilaterali con Pechino hanno spesso dato risultati comparativamente più sostanziosi rispetto a quelli che l’Italia, unico paese del gruppo ad aver aderito alla Bri — il rafforzamento del partenariato strategico risponde all’esigenza di promuovere gli interessi nazionali in un ambito bilaterale.”
Edoardo Agamennone is a Research Fellow at T.wai and Academic Director of the ChinaMed Business Program developed by the TOChina Hub, an integrated academic platform of the University of Torino, T.wai and ESCP Business School.
Giovanni B. Andornino is the President of the Torino World Affairs Institute and Head of its Global China Program. He is an Assistant Professor of International Relations of East Asia at the University of Torino and the Secretary General of the China-Italy Philanthropy Forum.
Carlotta Clivio is a Junior Research Fellow at T.wai and a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Enrico Fardella is Director for Area Studies of the ChinaMed Business Program and Director of the ChinaMed Project. He is Associate Professor of the History Department of Peking University, Director of the Center for Mediterranean Area Studies of Peking University and Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.
Andrea Ghiselli is a non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai and an Assistant Professor of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University (Shanghai).
Kavinda Navaratne is the General Manager of the Torino World Affairs Institute and Italy Coordinator for the TOChina Hub, an integrated academic platform of the University of Torino, T.wai and ESCP Business School.
Giorgio Prodi is the Vice President of the Torino World Affairs Institute and an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Ferrara.