Economics

China the garbage collector – Forchielli: “Investments? No way. Li Keqiang is coming to Rome to buy our garbage: Ansaldo Energia, Breda, and Ferretti. Nobody even wanted CDP Reti.”

Interview by Francesco Pacifico for Il Garantista originally published in Italian on October 16, 2014. The cynical investor who works in Hong…

Alberto Forchielli: may Italy not become a Chinese colony

The interchange between Italy and China is still far from the levels experienced by other manufacturing countries…

Hong Kong, why China doesn’t want a new Tian An Men

The number one problem in Beijing is reestablishing the Communist Party’s unity after the purges, not the…

Global China for development and infrastructure

During the Cold War, superpowers competed with nuclear warheads; a less apocalyptic weapon exists in globalization. It’s…

Forchielli: no hope for HK, political marionettes

Hong Kong, September 30 – A puppet government is destined to fail. This is the picture Alberto…

Beijing between Keynes and property tax

Fiscal policy reform is on China’s agenda again. Its structure—both for taxation and public spending—was established in…

Was the G2 fate?

It took the United States 53 years between the 19th and 20th centuries to double its per…

Hong Kong, Occupy’s peaceful attack on authority

The protests could probably be appeased by less arrogant policies that concede something. The facts in…

Abenomics

Disillusionment always denotes an error, which was the preceding illusion. In the personal sphere, damages are delimited:…

The renminbi without turbo diesel

China has won podiums for every economic record. But, it’s relegated to the bottom of classifications for…