The Perfect Storm: USA and China on the brink of World War III by Claudio Pagliara.
The author will be in conversation with journalist and writer Gianni Riotta on November 16, 2023, at 6:30PM.
A powerful and enlightening essay, full of anecdotes, geopolitical insights, small and large metaphors on the era we are living in and on the real risks of an authentic apocalypse of the human race.
«In Italy very few understand the importance that Taiwan has in the clash between the United States and China for the leadership of the 21st century. Yet this island, slightly larger than Sicily, with twenty-three million inhabitants, which produces the most advanced microchips in the world and is surrounded by waters where thousands of billions of dollars of goods pass through each year, could, in spite of itself, trigger the spark of Third World War: the perfect storm has its eye of the storm here.” Commercial tensions and spite, threats in the press, attempts at new alliances underway on the international stage. The winds of war have been stirring for many months now, the conflict in Ukraine is only a plastic but peripheral manifestation of it. Are we heading towards an escalation on a planetary scale? Who will rule the world in the coming years? Will the 21st century still be an American century? Does the United States, despite the political, economic and cultural divisions that seem to condemn it to decline, still have the strength to counter the onslaught of autocratic regimes, committed to undermining the international order that emerged from the Second World War and reshaping it in their favor? Through stories experienced and told firsthand, Claudio Pagliara, one of the best-known faces of television journalism, leads us to discover what is happening to American politics under the Biden presidency and to the Chinese policy of the “helmsman” Xi Jinping.
CLAUDIO PAGLIARA entered the journalistic profession in 1981 by winning a scholarship. He has been a RAI correspondent for 23 years and tells the general public about the epochal changes of our times. He worked and lived in Paris (2001-2003), Jerusalem (2003-2014), Beijing (2014 2019). Since 2019, he has been responsible for the Rai Correspondence Office for the United States. He has a blog, Ithaca. Among the awards received, the Saint Vincent Prize for journalism.
November 16, 2023 | 6:30PM
Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue, NY
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