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The Elephant in the Alaska Room

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- China -
12 August 2025

The Trump-Putin summit puts Xi Jinping in an impossible situation, trying to double-guess both. It all started from wrong assessments of the international situation. Perhaps China should stop fighting Buddha’s fingers and instead try to become Buddha. The summit between the US and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will be held in Alaska, […]

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US: Church, Nation, and Pope Leo

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- America -
11 August 2025

The conclave that led to the election of Pope Leo XIV was more geopolitical than its participants were willing to admit. It also demonstrated that the Catholic Church is capable of making timely decisions in response to global emergencies when taking a stand within a world order undergoing profound transformation, if not outright disintegration. The […]

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Bridging a Myth

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- Italy -
10 August 2025

At long last, Italy decided to build a structure linking Sicily and the mainland. It will be a continental shift and a massive cultural change for Western civilization, provided Italian politics gets its act together. This is not a bridge; it is the end of one myth and perhaps the origin of another. Western civilization […]

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The crisis of liberal democracies

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- America -
7 August 2025

When observing the international political scene today, few things appear as clear as the deeply critical tensions facing Western democracies. The current situation in the United States, one of the oldest and most established democratic systems, serves as evidence of this and should leave us far from reassured about the future of democratic political systems […]

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China, 20 years after

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- China -
5 August 2025

In a nutshell, the challenges about China are the same as they were two decades ago. The US got it wrong then can it get it right now? Plus, today, Beijing has its domestic issues to solve with or without America. It’s one of the rarest events in history – its repetition a generation later. […]

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Trading Deals

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- America -
30 July 2025

America signed the trade accord, but Europeans are frustrated. It could change forever the mechanics of the American alliances, with earth-shattering fallouts. It’s common—almost universal—Europeans complain about the trade agreement they just signed with the United States. Moreover, will the tariffs America has imposed on half the world be effective? The issue is highly controversial, […]

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Crypto Divergence

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- Economy -
27 July 2025

Stable-currency could further divide the USA and China, with one country embracing it and the other rejecting it. The two are re-engineering themselves in different directions. Who will be right? American stable currency, based on crypto, promises to change the US and the world with it. Yet China is very cautious. It’s not just money; […]

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