A balanced evaluation of the ASEM Summit in Milan
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A balanced evaluation of the ASEM Summit in Milan

How different newspapers covered the EU-Asia gathering

The two-day ASEM summit that ended in Milan a few days go without any breaking news.  Well, this does not mean that something similar was expected, although leaders of both Asia and Europe met in Italy for their biannual gathering to have "one more chance" to discuss altogether about "important challenges" and "common threats" such as natural disaster response, international crime, terrorism, climate, as well as student protests in Hong Kong, the escalating concerns about the Ebola outbreak, and of course the Ukraine crisis.

Writing a balanced evaluation on the effectiveness of these kinds of meeting is never an easy task. Here is the reason why the best thing we can do is providing the links to interesting readings covering Summit's expectations (1 and 2), positive outcomes (1 and 2), euro-sceptical visions (1, 2 and 3), and the inevitable pro-Russia columns (1 and 2).

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Claudia Astarita

Amo l'Asia in (quasi) tutte le sue sfaccettature, ecco perché cerco di trascorrerci più tempo possibile. Dopo aver lavorato per anni come ricercatrice a New Delhi e Hong Kong, per qualche anno osserverò l'Oriente dalla quella che è considerata essere la città più vivibile del mondo: Melbourne. Insegno Culture and Business Practice in Asia ad RMIT University,  Asia and the World a The University of Melbourne e mi occupo di India per il Centro Militare di Studi Strategici di Roma. Su Twitter mi trovate a @castaritaHK, via email a astarita@graduate.hku.hk

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