China’s External Propaganda and the Italian Information Environment
This report examines China’s external propaganda activities on social media and messaging apps within Italy’s information environment over the years 2024-2025, revealing a notably cautious approach…
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Stress-Testing EU-Taiwan Semiconductor Supply Chains
Semiconductors underpin virtually every domain of the modern economy, yet supply chains sustaining them were built for efficiency rather than resilience. Comparative mapping of EU and Taiwanese…
With Soldiers Like These? Challenges of Conscription in China and Taiwan
China and Taiwan have continued to conscript soldiers although their numbers (700,000 vs. 9,800) and proportion in their armed forces (about 35 per cent vs. 5 per cent) are quite different. In the…
Trump’s Imperial Strategy towards China Meets Meloni’s Indo-Mediterranean Initiative
A thread – dotted with ports and logistical hubs – connects Donald Trump’s geo-economic containment of China with Giorgia Meloni’s plan to position Italy as India’s and Middle Eastern countries’…