In the lead up to COP27 in Egypt, all eyes are on the region. The acceleration of the global energy transition poses critical challenges for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with the transformation evolving into an all-encompassing economic, social, and political project for the region. Exacerbating this shift are two main factors: the over-dependence on hydrocarbons, coupled with ongoing diversification drives and ambitious reform programs aimed at widening the economic base.
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The 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress has consolidated the concentration of power in the hands of the country's top leader, Secretary General Xi Jinping. And as Xi's rule is now further unchallenged, China is turning even more autocratic. How to deal with this outcome?
Dopo due anni di intensi negoziati, Israele e Libano, due stati ancora formalmente in guerra, hanno raggiunto un accordo sulla definizione dei loro confini marittimi. Frutto della mediazione americana, l’intesa pone fine a una disputa durata più di dodici anni. Anche se è improbabile che esso possa dare il via a un processo di normalizzazione diplomatica nel breve termine, è evidente che l’accordo segna una svolta significativa nei rapporti bilaterali tra i due paesi e, in quanto tale, rappresenterà un fattore di stabilità per il futuro della regione.
Dopo 24 anni ininterrotti sotto la guida di un Nehru-Gandhi, la presidenza del Congress, il partito nato nel 1885 che ha creato l'India contemporanea, esce dal controllo familiare. Forse. Non è improbabile che il risultato del voto fra i 9,900 delegati del partito sia solo una forma asiatica del gattopardismo mediterraneo: cambiare tutto per non cambiare niente.
When Xi Jinping emerged as key leader of the Communist Party of China on 15th November 2012, I was sitting in a hotel lobby in central Beijing, watching the events on television while waiting for a friend to come by. The last few weeks before his final appearance at the head of a group of six others at the Great Hall of the People that day had been febrile and at times bewildering. There had been talk of coups, assassination attempts, and even Xi himself, during a two-week disappearance, being injured or worse.
The time has come. The 20th Communist Party Congress, starting on October 16th, is expected to confirm Xi Jinping as Party General Secretary for a third five-year term. Such an outcome has been very likely ever since 2017, after the 19th Party Congress included Xi Jinping’s in the Party Constitution and no plausible successor emerged. A few months later, a new amendment in the Constitution granted him the role of President of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for more than two mandates.