Since its launch in 2013, the China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has sparked a heated debate. Despite Beijing’s efforts to frame it as a win-win cooperation, concerns mounted on the risks...
In March 2019 by signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Italian government officially embraced the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. This event sparked a fierce debate at the time,...
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese leadership has spared no effort in increasing China’s soft power and improving the country’s image abroad. Beatrice Gallelli (IAI researcher)...
In recent years, China’s leadership has developed a more assertive approach and new ways of communicating at home and abroad. The workshop aims to provide a toolkit necessary to disentangle and...
In recent years, the north-western region of Xinjiang has come under the spotlight due to the “serious human rights violation”, as also denounced in a recently released report by the United Nation...
Since the beginning of Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2021, China has embraced the Russian narrative of the war, blaming it on the U.S. and NATO. China has also recalled the need for a “...
IAI, in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Office in Rome and with the AREL association, organized a closed-door meeting under Chatham House Rule in which Paola Subacchi,...
By focusing on five fields of cooperation between China and Italy, the lecture will shed light on whether the Belt and Road Initiative MoU has brought about an intensification of bilateral...
Days after the European Central Bank publicly disclosed its roadmap for a digital euro project, the People’s Bank of China published a paper describing the...
Collaborations between Chinese and foreign media have been attracting international attention, including Francesca Ghiretti's and Lorenzo Mariani...