Information warfare

How Covid-19 could reshape the Italy-China relationship

In March 2019, when Italy became the first G7 country to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to join China’s…

5 years ago

Business lessons from China’s Covid-19 transparency policy

Predictably dramatic reactions followed Beijing’s late-March announcement of yet another modification of China’s Covid-19 case statistics. Some remained objective: Time…

5 years ago

Of Chinese doctors and faulty gear: how China could lose the health diplomacy battle

China to the rescue Much has been said and written about China coming to the rescue of the rest of…

5 years ago

Manufacturing the enemy. From trade war to the pandemic spat, the impossible cohabitation of China and the US

Throughout their history, the United States have built their identity as a great power around the figure of their external…

5 years ago

China wages information warfare at Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters

As US and British flags (some from colonial times) were seen many times in the demonstrations, and with secretary-general of…

5 years ago

More of Trump’s “Art of the Deal” on display in Osaka

Osaka's G20 summit was the setting of yet another display of Trump's two-steps-backward-one-step-forward "Art of the Deal" tactics... After branding…

5 years ago

China re-organizes its overseas “magic weapon”

From soft to sharp power... 80 years after Mao's original formulation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's…

5 years ago

An example of Chinese influence & soft power in Brazil

When the regional branch in the State of Bahia of Brazil's Associação das Empresas Brasileiras de Tecnologia da Informação (ASSESPRO…

6 years ago

Japanese company’s Korean assets targeted over WW2 row

South Korea keeps waging economic warfare on Japanese competitors by leveraging historical disputes... which were supposedly resolved by the 1965…

6 years ago

Mitsubishi Heavy’s assets seized in South Korea

A timely coincidence... South Korea calls for seizing Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' assets over World War 2 forced labour, just as…

6 years ago