To strengthen its position regarding China, the United States, under Trump, is restoring relations with allies. Conversation with Francesco Sisci. To counter the Chinese monopoly, the US State Department in Washington recently promoted an agreement with the European Union, Japan, and Mexico on rare earths. After a year of unilateralism, does the Trump administration suddenly […]
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 […]
Marco Mayer discusses it with Francesco Sisci. (adapted from Starmag Italian version) It’s the aftermath of a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping that both sides described as positive, and the night before a bilateral meeting scheduled for October that is expected to yield some results for both. In […]
It’s much ado about something. The Indian shift away from the US could be a significant setback for America. Although nothing is set in stone, the United States could pay a price. (Marco Mayer interviews Francesco Sisci) (first published in the Italian magazine Starmag) On the eve of a historic meeting in Beijing between Indian […]
By Marco Mayer and Valeria Fargion An actual Palestinian state requires, as a precondition, the disarmament of the Hamas terrorist organization. The international community should push for it, or further destabilization will ensue. Is it realistic to resume the “Two Peoples/ Two States” project as long as Hamas’s Al Qassam Brigades are operational in Gaza? Advocates of an actual Palestinian […]
The CIA, openly fishing for informants in the Chinese Communist Party, pries open the contradictions of the system. It plants the seeds of a plague-like provocation that could infuriate Beijing and increase its entropy The following report results from Marco Mayer‘s conversation with Francesco Sisci in Rome last week. This week, all the main international […]
I visited the UNIFIL II mission in Lebanon in the spring of 2007 and already then the Hezbollah militiamen were irresponsive on urgings about disarmament or moving north of the Litani River as directed by the UN Security Council resolution 1701 (2006).Beyond the rules of engagement (linked to Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter) […]
