Fabrizio Franciosi

Author

is a lawyer, political analyst, sinologist, and the author of: Macao 1974-1979: ombre cinesi sulla sovranità portoghese.

Articles

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Yuan day, over the rainbow

Longitude #82

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The wobbly table

Longitude #82

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Playing nice with Kim

Longitude #81

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ECB’s game of thrones

Longitude #80

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The EU’s Eastern problem

Longitude #78/79

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Hate & love diplomacy

Longitude #77

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Not enough to keep Asia happy

Longitude #77

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Europe’s tepid independence movements

Longitude #76

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Eurasian relations at stake

Longitude #75

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How Kim keeps the world in check

Longitude #75

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Scandinavia’s defense dilemma

Longitude #75

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Germany and China realigned

Longitude #74

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Three seas between two giants

Longitude #74

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Catalonia keeps pushing away

Longitude #73

How Le Pen missed her chance

How Le Pen missed her chance

Longitude #72

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Germany’s Socialists are worrying

Longitude #72

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Playing their own game

Longitude #71

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A new arms race in Asia

Longitude #71

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Korea on the brink

Longitude #71

International security

Troubled borders

Longitude #70

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The four horsemen of Latin America

Longitude #70

China

Cutting through the courts’ red tape

Longitude #69

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The future of trade agreements

Longitude #69

Global trade

Xi Da Da, the global uncle

Longitude #68

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France’s Socialists lean further left

Longitude #68

China

The President-elect’s two-China policy

Longitude #67

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Choosing new friends

Longitude #67

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Beijing cringes at US democracy

Longitude #66

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Russia’s ring of friends and fire

Longitude #66

China

Hoping the apples fall by the tree

Longitude #65

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The perils of direct democracy

Longitude #65

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Transport in China’s smart cities

Longitude #64

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Talking Turkey with the world

Longitude #64

Civil aviation

Flying the unfriendly skies

Longitude #63

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And now, for something completely different

Longitude #63

Culture

When art gets caught in war

Longitude #62

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French dog beds

Longitude #62

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All the news that’s fit to click

Longitude #61

China

Openings and closings in China

Longitude #60

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Easing in Germany

Longitude #60

Libya

The European shadow over Libya

Longitude #59

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A shift in Germany’s core

Longitude #59

China

The Chinese behind China’s growth

Longitude #58

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Money talks

Longitude #58

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The rich,the slick and the crude

Longitude #57

Pacific hegemony

Vying for Taiwan

Longitude #57

Is the world’s economy safe?

Yes, you’re the yuan

Longitude #56

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Defense challenges

Longitude #56

China

Reading Beijing’s moves in the South China Sea

Longitude #55

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Myanmar makeover

Longitude #55

China

Testing the waters abroad

Longitude #54

China’s unending march

China restructures

Longitude #53

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Europe’s not-in-my-backyarders

Longitude #53

Political models

Asian pop-com

Longitude #52

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The blessed and the poor

Longitude #52

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Spain’s two-party system at risk

Longitude #51

China

Macao’s gambling problem

Longitude #50

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Coming to terms with the castaways

Longitude #50

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Running to become France’s next republican monarch

Longitude #49