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Great to join @dwnews yesterday to discuss China and the war in Iran! youtube.com/watch?app=desk…

مقابلتي مع @ChinaMedit عن الصين والحرب في ايران والادعاء حول "حيادية" الصين في السياق الفلسطيني. @xinyiachen ❤️ يعطيك العافية عزيزتي

While I might not be able to make it to Torino this year, I cannot but strongly encourage all aspiring China watchers to apply to attend the always-awesome @TOChinaHub Summer School! @vshih2 @TinhinanEl @FardellaEnrico @EvanFeigenbaum @schneiderfa77 @PM_Thornton and more will be there! tochina.it/training/tochi…

For those who did not read it when it came out, I strongly encourage them to read this @FardellaEnrico and @GangzhengSHE's article. It includes some extremely astute observations about why China has not developed a truly independent and assertive Middle East policy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

How is the Arab world reading China’s response to the Iran war? The latest @ChinaMedit Observer looks at how experts in the GCC and pan-Arab media interpreted China’s response to the war. chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/china…

A brief new post about China's role in making the Iran-US ceasefire happen! open.substack.com/pub/thoughtson… Might be of interest to @JEyal_RUSI @amyhawk_ @PhelimKine @Ryan_Bohl @andreas_krieg @HamidRezaAz

Very happy to share this brief analysis that I had the pleasure of writing for @LowyInstitute together with my friend and leading China–UN expert @CourtneyFung! lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

My comments for @TIME on Iran’s “selective” closure of the Strait of Hormuz and China @UniofExeterNews @UoE_SPSPA time.com/article/2026/0…

My hot take on the China-Pakistan plan for Iran @AAboudouh @RyanFedasiuk @ZichenWanghere @Bkerrychina @JEyal_RUSI @GeringTuvia @andreas_krieg @niubi open.substack.com/pub/thoughtson…

My comments on China and the war in the Gulf for @AFP reported by @japantimes japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/3…

I might well be wrong but the points are pretty much the usual Chinese ones. There is no reference to the U.S. and Israel, and there is no reference to whatever commitment China might be willing to make.

La crisi iraniana riporta il Medio Oriente al centro delle priorità strategiche degli Stati Uniti, mettendo sotto pressione il tentativo di concentrare risorse e attenzione sulla competizione con la Cina. L'analisi di @FardellaEnrico #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">formiche.net/2026/03/crisi-…

Il dibattito sul futuro economico dell’Europa si sta progressivamente spostando da una semplice comparazione con gli Stati Uniti – crescita, produttività, innovazione – a una riflessione più profonda sul ruolo dell’Unione nel sistema economico globale. In questo contesto si inserisce il saggio “How Europe can harness its economic power”, firmato da @michaelxpettis, senior fellow del @CarnegieEndow for International Peace, ed Enrico Fardella, professore associato @UniOrientale, docente alla Sais-Johns Hopkins, John Cabot e direttore del progetto ChinaMed. Il punto di partenza del loro ragionamento è semplice ma cruciale. Secondo la Banca centrale europea, il principale fattore che frena gli investimenti nell’eurozona è la debolezza della domanda, seguita dalla bassa redditività. Questo significa che le imprese non investono perché non vedono prospettive di crescita sufficienti, non perché non abbiano accesso al credito. Questa diagnosi cambia radicalmente il modo in cui si dovrebbero leggere alcune dinamiche economiche. In particolare, mette in discussione l’idea che un maggiore afflusso di capitali verso l’Europa – ad esempio attraverso un rafforzamento del ruolo internazionale dell’euro – sia necessariamente positivo. Se il vincolo è la domanda, nuovi capitali non si traducono automaticamente in nuovi investimenti produttivi. Continua a leggere su 👉 eurofocus.adnkronos.com/imprese/europa…

New analysis of the Chinese official position and expert debate on the war in Iran @ZichenWanghere @GeringTuvia @yarbatman @EvanFeigenbaum @gbrew24 @alessionaval @TheStalwart @JesCMarks open.substack.com/pub/chinamed/p…

Honoured to be quoted in @AJEnglish on Iran's likely use of the BeiDou system

ChinaMed Research Fellow @ThNencini was quoted in a TRT World article on the difficulties of reaching a new nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran amid ongoing tensions and negotiations. www-trtworld-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.trtwor…

ChinaMed Head of Research @AGhiselliChina was quoted in a The New York Times article on the potential benefits Beijing could gain from a U.S. shift of focus toward the Middle East. nytimes.com/2026/03/09/bus…

ChinaMed Head of Research @AGhiselliChina was quoted in a Channel News Asia article on the five key questions confronting Beijing as the conflict widens. channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/chin…

The French translation of the ChinaMed Report on Sino-Middle Eastern relations in the aftermath of the 2025 Israel-Iran War is now available. Read it here: chinamed.it/publications/l…

Théo Nencini, ChinaMed Reaserch Fellow, was quoted in a France24 article, analysing the constraints and priorities driving Beijing's strategy in the Middle East.