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Water scarcity in China is threatening both social stability and economic expansion. Droughts, uneven distribution of water across the country and high levels of pollution in the major rivers and lakes reduce hydropower availability, endangering energy supplies, and undermine agricultural productivity, posing serious challenges to China’s food security. Concerned by the potential implication of the issue Beijing has adopted a strategy that will likely have implications for the whole region.

Al di là delle dichiarazioni politiche e delle posizioni di principio che vengono ribadite, la probabilità che la Germania possa acconsentire allo smantellamento dell’euro e dell’Eurozona sulla base di ragionamenti economici sembra molto bassa. L’economia tedesca infatti ha ottenuto dei benefici significativi in seguito all’introduzione della moneta unica e al rafforzamento dell’integrazione euro-pea, e dunque i costi del suo abbandono per il sistema industriale tedesco sarebbero elevatissimi.

Most of the US public opinion generally remembers the 80s as a successful decade, characterized by a great economic recovery and the victory in the Cold War at the expense of the Soviet Union. Those years came after the uncertain 70s, when the American weakness was particularly visible. Many authors use to describe the then-President, Ronald Reagan, as the leading “actor” of that patriotic renaissance. More than thirty years on, the ghost of the US decline is back.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has an active nuclear weapons program which is of great concern to the international community. It also has the capability to enrich uranium as well as the ability to produce plutonium suitable for nuclear weapons (weapons-grade plutonium). In parallel, Pyongyang has an advanced ballistic missile program in terms of short and medium range missiles and, more recently, is trying to develop a long-range and three-stage ballistic missile.