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Trade, COVID and Rare Earths

Francesco Sisci / Director

- China -

16 October 2025

China is fully prepared to confront the United States, ultimately leading to a possible global financial collapse. With Covid, it had almost a rehearsal of a war economy. The USA apparently isn’t, and perhaps it doesn’t have a plan B other than talks. America has upended its system and network of alliances, irritated allies and […]

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Gaza Maze

Appia Institute Editorial Board /

- Middle East -

15 October 2025

A crucial assessment of the situation in Gaza from Ely Karmon, an Israeli intelligence expert, to the main Catholic daily in Italy, Avvenire. Karmon is also a member of the Israeli non-partisan group, the Coalition for Regional Security. The problems today are rooted in the choices made in 2009. To achieve real peace, these issues […]

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US-China, Not Only Trade Clash

Marco Mayer /

- America -

13 October 2025

There is a larger picture behind the latest US-China trade clash, but something is deteriorating between the two powers at an alarming rate, with potentially unfathomable consequences. It’s high time for an alert. Marco Mayer interviews Francesco Sisci. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump moved to calm fears of an escalating trade war with Beijing […]

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The Future Is Europe

Lorenzo Prezzi /

- Europe -

12 October 2025

The Loneliness of Europe. Churches and the Union, this is the title that the digital platform SettimanaNews has given to its annual meeting with readers (Albino-Bergamo, November 7-8). The international balance that has held since World War II ended in 1945 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is crumbling. A redefinition of […]

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Christianophobia, beyond the persecution of Christians

Lorenzo Prezzi /

- Religion -

9 October 2025

Anti-Semitism is not alone; Christianophobia is a new phenomenon, and it is spreading fast in the world, and the cradle of Christianity, Western Europe. Many voices are being raised in Western countries against acts of vandalism and anti-Christian aggression. In France, 86 senators have called for the establishment of an inquiry commission. In Germany, the […]

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US-China Deal Question Marks

Francesco Sisci / Director

- China -

8 October 2025

Beijing is confident because it has achieved several successes in recent months and relies on the US’s persistence in making mistakes. Still, America remains much stronger. Will it get it right and alter the course of history? There are three aspects to the US-China issue: short-term, medium-term, and long-term. In the short term, China has […]

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Uninsured EU Far Right

Francesco Sisci / Director

- Europe -

3 October 2025

Is America’s recent fascination with the European far right misconstrued and risky for the US? The United States has made similar mistakes before; now might be the time to be more cautious. In 2011, I was in Washington when a well-known geopolitics expert of Jewish descent told me about America’s rising confidence in Egypt’s Muslim […]