How Green Is the New Silk Road?
It was back in 2013 that Xi Jinping first announced his vision of an “economic belt along the Silk Road” during a visit to Kazakhstan. What later became known as the Belt and Road Initia...
China heads towards five-year plan for strategic resilience
The Fourth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has concluded in Beijing. For four days, from 20 to 23 October, the CCP leadership convened in what is traditionally a time ...
Think Business, Think Hong Kong 2025 lands in Milan
In a challenging phase for transatlantic trade relations, especially for the green economy sector, looking to China and Hong Kong in particular becomes an opportunity for Italian companies to divers...
The green dragon: China now holds the climate leadership
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano from New York – “The green and low-carbon transition is the trend of our time. Yet som...
Towards a new WTO: China waives “special treatment”
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The announcement almost went unnoticed, during a side meeting of the UN General Assembly in New Yo...
China leads the green ranking of Asian central banks
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Some currencies are greener than others, and among the Asian ones, the Chinese yuan is currently t...
United Nations, is UN80 the start of a new era?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche italiano “The Trump presidency is seriously destabilising the UN system, and many heads of state are fol...
China boosts investment in Europe, led by electric vehicles
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano China is close, wallet in hand. After seven years of steady contraction, Chinese investment in Eur...
CATL, all you need to know about the Chinese battery giant making its stock market debut
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On 20 May, with a well-aimed strike on the giant bronze gong of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Chin...
The Caspian Sea is drying up, and Kazakhstan asks Russia to collaborate in managing the Volga River
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano from Moscow - Kazakhstan is concerned about the rapid decline in the level of the Caspian Sea, whi...
China’s CO₂ emissions begin to fall: have they finally reached the peak?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano A clear and unmistakable downturn. The once sharply rising line on the graph comes to a sudden hal...
Orientalism
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano For decades, the Global South has been warning us about the systemic failure of the preconceived v...
Water as weapon: India's threat to the Indus Treaty signals a dangerous global turn
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano It took years of painstaking diplomacy, technical negotiation, and political compromise to broker ...
Tariffs, will China fight to the end?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano If Trump is playing poker with the global economy, China seems to have engaged in a Go challenge.&...
Ecomondo China: a litmus test for relations between Rome and Beijing
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Chengdu - The 19th edition of Ecomondo China CDEPE, the Italian Exhibition Group’s flag...
China counters Trump’s tariffs with economic cooperation
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano If Trump imposes tariffs, China will shake hands and make deals. Without much fanfare but swiftly,...
The future of mobility: interviews from RM55
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Think Tank section of issue 55 of Renewable Matter, focused on transport and sustainable mobil...
China, Two Sessions: deficit increases, but the government focuses on AI and clean tech
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Widely anticipated, awaited, discussed, and analysed, the 2025 Two Sessions (Lianghui) were formal...
Climate, Indonesia launches its international carbon trading
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On the 20th of January, Indonesia officially launched its international carbon market. Its domesti...
What will be the consequences of Trump's tariffs? Interview with Lucia Tajoli
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in Italiano In the last few days, the new President of the United States, Donald Trump, has announced th...