At the evening gala during the Xiamen BRICS summit, a quartet of Chinese singers has sung the famous air of Puccini’s Turandot “Domani Vincerò“. Turandot is, under several points of view, a symbol of the Silk Road and of the countries around it. As it is known, the composer of Turandot, the Italian Puccini, was … Leggi tutto
At the end of 17th century, the philosopher and scientist Leibniz wrote, in Latin, the work “Novissima Sinica”, what means “Last news from China”, which related about the twofold victory achieved by Jesuits, both in Rome and in Cina and, obtaining, from the Pope, the recognition of the “Chinese Rythes” and, from the Chinese Emperor, the … Leggi tutto
Come noto, nelle elezioni regionali del Molise, e, soprattutto, del Friuli, la partecipazione popolare ha raggiunto livelli bassissimi. Nel Friuli, si è rimasti al di sotto del 50% degli aventi diritto. Questo è solo l’ultimo esempio di come i cittadini siano disamorati dalla cosa pubblica, che, semplicemente, non è gestita, forse perché è divenuta letteralmente … Leggi tutto
Europe, in developing its own knowledge-intensive industries, is confronted with the challenge to find a new way to interact with what Ray Kurzweil has called “Spiritual Machines”, but respecting European cultural traditions: how will it be possible to develop ICT in such a way as to avoid the complete destruction, by machines, of the natural … Leggi tutto
The HouHanShu (the Annals of Later Han) defined Rome, Italy, the Roman Empire, as “DaQin”, the Great China, in the same way as Ancient Greeks defined Italy as “Megale Hellas” (“the Great Greece”). This was a sign of respect and communicated a sense of commonality. What the Han admired in the Western Empire were, from … Leggi tutto
The One Belt-One Road system makes sense only if it constitutes also a modality for connecting existing projects which are under way in different parts of Eurasia. a.Russian Railways in the Global Transportation System An important part of the Northern branch of the New Silk Road (the railway part, the “Road”) will run through the … Leggi tutto
It goes without saying that the New Silk Road , as all political projects, is exposed to several kinds of threats. The first one of them is the risk of economic failure. Since 2013, a lot of elements have worsened in the world economic landscape, with some of the BRICS countries still in a phase … Leggi tutto
The multiplication of new exchange opportunities is unavoidable in a moment when Europe and Russia are hit by a long-standingcrisis, also because of their mutual economic war following to the Ukrainian crisis, and China’s economy is relatively slowingdown because of the worldwide recession and of the impossibility, by its internal market, to absorb the bulk of the country’s hugecommercial surplus. Europe will benefit under several points of view from the increasing ease with which people from all of Eurasia will be able reach it, witnessed already now by the multiple direct railway connections with Madrid, Lyon, Rotterdam, Warsaw, Lodz and also Mortara. Theexperience of the last years has shown that crisis ridden Europe is attracting important Chinese, Russian, Indian and Arabi (such as the ones in Jaguar, Pirelli, PSA, Pyraeus Port), and that Russian and Chinese tourists rush are just at the beginning, whilst we have now130 million tourists exiting Chine each year, of which only a small percentage are coming to Europe. Notwithstanding the positive shift of interest, in worldwide culture, from a narrow-minded Eurocentrism (the so-called “provincialisation of Europe”), Europe is still attracting people of all the world for a series of conditions unique to it: the European tradition to preserve alsophysically ancient cultural heritage (Athens, Rome, Florence, Venice); the concentration of a centuries old history within a limited space;the diversity among the different parts of this space; the European origin of the inhabitants of many important non European countries, aswell as the influence of European culture on other peoples during the XIX and XX Centuries; the special sophistication of Europeanconsumerism, which renders European culture, goods and locations, very appreciated by … Leggi tutto
Albeit most modern sciences and techniques (mathematics, glass production, automata, paper, paper-money, algebra, printing, gunpowder, firearms…), have ancient Asiatic roots, the development of complicated machines apt to substitute men’s work, such as steam engines, Jacquard looms, dynamos and turbines, motor vehicles, writing and computing machines, electric and nuclear energies, mass media, informatics, are connected in … Leggi tutto
China is explaining the New Silk Road (or “One-Belty-One Road”, or “Silk Road Initiative”Yi Dai-Yi Lu: hereinafter, “the Initiative”)to the world. Moreover, there is another multiplicity of initiatives, independent of China, which contribute to clarify it in a very differentiated way. Many books have been published in all continents and in many languages. That it … Leggi tutto
