What Lies Beneath: Hybrid Threats to Taiwan’s Submarine Cables and the Contest in the Information Domain
Between 2023 and 2025, multiple disruptions affected Taiwan’s submarine cables, a critical yet vulnerable infrastructure essential to the island’s connectivity and security. Against the backdrop of…
Spotlight
G7 Fragmented: South Korea and the Prospects for a G6+
The G7 is experiencing a profound crisis as US obstruction under the Trump Administration limits its ability to act on global challenges. This situation has highlighted the constraints of a format…
Europe’s ‘Two-Chinas’ Strategy and the Prospect for Beijing-Taipei Peaceful Coexistence
The EU is moving towards a ‘Two-Chinas’ strategy: EU-China economic relations continue to grow, while Brussels is gradually integrating Taiwan into Europe’s markets.
While…
China-EU@50: Assessing the Ups and Downs of the Relationship
In Europe there co-exist concurrent, and often contradictory, images of China, which explains why Sino-European economic relations continue to thrive notwithstanding the political coldness of the…
Publications
Data pubblicazione
The Case for an EU–Indo-Pacific Critical Maritime Infrastructure Partnership
Autori
Gabriele Abbondanza
Details
In: IAI Briefs
26|12
Rome, IAI, February 2026, 5 p.
Data pubblicazione
China’s External Propaganda and the Italian Information Environment
Details
In: Altri paper e articoli
Rome, IAI, February 2026, 45 p.
Data pubblicazione
Trump’s Imperial Strategy towards China Meets Meloni’s Indo-Mediterranean Initiative
Autori
Nicola Casarini
Details
In: IAI Briefs
26|08
Rome, IAI, February 2026, 5 p.
Research
The project will examine India’s emerging role as a pivotal actor in reshaping connectivity, economic relations and security architectures both regionally and globally. The event 2025 India Dialogue…
The project examines the engagement of the Republic of Korea (ROK) with the G7 in the “G7 Plus” framework, against the backdrop of the South Korean government’s ambition to transform the ROK into a …
This project, funded by the US Department of State, will leverage IAI’s unique knowledge of the Italian political and media landscape in order to generate through collaborative research an up-to-date…
Events
Data evento
Luogo
Online course
Geopolitica dell’Indo-Pacifico - 2.ed.
Data evento
Luogo
Rome, Istituto Affari Internazionali
“China’s story”: Party rhetoric and state disinformation
Data evento
IAI in the media
CNA: Italian expert warns that repeated damage to Taiwan's submarine cables could be a pretext for China to launch a cognitive war. [Interview]
Asia Nikkei: EU arms makers seek Southeast Asian partners amid China-US rivalry
European University Institute: Giulio Pugliese on EU-Asia relations post-Trump & the Asia-Pacific scholarship
Experts
