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World – China – Capitalism or Barbarians

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10 August 2024
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On the eve of Deng’s centenary, China and the rest of the world may want a different understanding to solve their growing attrition and avoid war. The Vatican should play a role. The present tensions surrounding China have many origins, but a crucial one revolves around the 2008 financial crisis — then, U.S. and Asian […]

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La “bestemmia” olimpica

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29 July 2024
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La rappresentazione “queer” dell’ultima cena alla cerimonia di apertura delle olimpiadi di Parigi ha aperto una questione estremamente delicata al cuore del rapporto della modernità in occidente con la religione e della sua relazione con l’Islam. I vescovi francesi “sottolineano quanto sia importante oggi attraverso i valori sportivi e quelli olimpici promuovere nel mondo intero […]

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Empire and Christianity: No Water for Pilate’s Hands

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25 July 2024
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The history of Jesus is also that of walking a very fine line—a radical critique of the Roman imperial order (intertwining religious and political power) without aiming to topple or replace the Empire. Jesus contrasts the deification of the emperor with the presence of God in a marginal Jewish “prophet’s” everyday life. The two can […]

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A Neoclassical Solution for China

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22 July 2024
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The Party Plenum took inspiration from ancient philosophers to solve its modernization drive. It is a bold and ambitious move that could change the country and the world. Will it work? Last week, the 2024 Party Plenum issued its decisions, concentrating on the economy[i]. The plan, in a nutshell, was to unify the internal market, […]

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US Rhetoric of Self-Destruction?

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19 July 2024

A general problem in these American elections is that the climate of rhetorical violence and the spread of conspiracy theories is a double-edged sword. Whoever uses it will also suffer from it, and unfortunately, the attempt on former President Donald Trump and the very bizarre interpretations given in the heat of the moment—and that will […]

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China’s Defiant Army

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13 July 2024
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(recast with updates) The PLA’s chest-thumping in Europe and America after NATO’s claims may hide the impact of the recent military purge. Military, not economy, could dominate the next Party plenum. China defiantly called on military drills with Russia, a nation at war in Ukraine, after NATO called Beijing “enabler” of Moscow’s war effort and […]

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The PLA Needs Democracy to Fight

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6 July 2024
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China’s failures to reform the army may lie deep in the ancient military mindset that doesn’t fit modern requirements. Can the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fight? And in case, how would they fight? They had the human waves in Korea, and they advised the Vietnamese on guerrilla warfare, but how would they perform in a […]

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