Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China’s growing assertiveness and will to power have taken on very specific characteristics, leading Beijing, in less than a decade, to climb the global rankings in multiple areas.

The Chinese government is implementing a comprehensive and long-term strategy to ensure its global dominance.

The People’s Republic of China officially declares ambitions and coercive policies that challenge and question our interests, security and values. Beijing uses a vast arsenal of political, economic and military tools aimed at rapidly increasing its global presence, its projection of power, while at the same time remaining completely opaque as to its strategy, intentions and exponential strengthening of its military arsenal. China today is rich, industrialized, controls the most important global supply chains and creates dependencies. For this reason, for many years China has been waging its Liminal Warfare, an incremental war, where the spectrum of competition and confrontation with the West is so broad that the battlefield is everywhere and the war is total, including, among other things, economic, diplomatic, legal, military, intelligence and cyber operations. And to do this, Beijing uses every means at its disposal. It is incredible to look back for a moment and see how all this happened so suddenly, without the West becoming aware – at least until the last moment – ​​of the danger: both external and internal, because it managed to penetrate and innervate the very ganglia of our political, economic and cultural apparatuses. To remedy the disaster it is necessary to finally know the adversary we are facing: how it moves, what its objectives are, which "allies" (more or less aware) it recruits and exploits in the opposing camp, that is, in our camp.

Gabriele and Nicola Iuvinale