La Cina è uno dei più grandi mercati per le università statunitensi, con quasi 266.000 studenti iscritti nell’anno accademico 2024/2025. Ma i numeri sono in calo, e l’America non è più la scelta primaria (“top choice”). Dopo un decennio, la perdita di PIL (prodotto interno lordo) annuo potrebbe essere compresa tra $ 240 miliardi a $ 481 miliardi
According to Ukrainian President Zelensky, Wildberries’ massive hubs do not merely handle civilian goods; they are used as logistical bases by the Russian army to supply the military with components for weapons, as well as for the production of drones and hardware
The doubling of Brazil’s production of cereals, pulses and oilseeds (346.1 million tonnes in 2025) over 13 years, coupled with its dominance of the meat market through the JBS group, was bound to lead to serious tensions: Trump accused Brazil of deforestation and imposed 25 per cent tariffs. This will not prevent Brazil from becoming the world’s leading agricultural power
When it comes to knowledge, innovation, skills, the manufacturing sector, US debt and rare-earth elements, China certainly holds more ‘cards’ than the US
The real crux of the matter is the rapid technological advancement of Walmart and Amazon, the undisputed market leaders, which European retailers can never hope to match, and which will continue to subject them to unfair competition from online platforms
In response to the Soviet decision to deploy SS-20 missiles, NATO adopted the ‘twin-track approach’: to station missiles in Europe whilst simultaneously negotiating disarmament with the USSR. Italy chose Comiso Airport as the base for 112 cruise missiles. The deployment caused extremely high tensions between 1981 and 1983 and gave rise to a major peace movement. Catholic and left-wing
One of the key strategies – within the supermarket – was undoubtedly that of the own-brand range
The current conflict is not merely a military one. It is a cultural, psychological and identity-based war. And in this war, Russia has realised that European democracies can be destabilised more easily by a meme, a newspaper article or a lecture than by a missile
“And so, the idea of the supermarket ultimately proved to be one of the moves that led the United States to win the cultural and economic game it played against us on the chessboard of Europe” Alessandro Baricco
In the United States, a fifth of food spending takes place online: what does the Italian retail sector intend to do? Does it want to come of age, or cede ground to the Chinese, the Germans and the Americans?
In the future, in Europe too, the agri-food sector and trade will play an increasingly important geopolitical role, with technology playing a central part
Russia and North Korea are certainly very similar; they are both ruthless dictatorships, but Chinese leader Xi’s current visit makes it clear that whilst Putin’s economy and power are in decline, Kim has benefited from his involvement in the war in Ukraine and from the prospect of possessing nuclear weapons
