A long and silent hand, heavy and intrusive. Apparently invisible, coming from very far away. One recommendation, don't mistake it for tact. In the modern manuals of the Chinese Communist Party, the technique of "soft power" is engraved in the chapter on strategy. In the year of the "Dragon", the man born under the sign of the "Snakes" dresses Western, as if he has always frequented the French ready-to-wear maison .
Desktop chessboards
In reality, he, the number one of the People's Republic of China, knows what he has to do when he takes his first steps on the runway at Orly airport in Paris. The mission is a carefully planned chessboard, a diplomatic incursion into the heart of Europe. The objective is clear: to send signals, forge relationships, to imprint in the collective imagination the icon of a "communist" who reassures. To memorize his name you don't have to resort to cognitive science manuals: "Xi", as everyone calls him, only to then venture into the "Jinping" addendum . The Chinese leader will play on the sidelines in the West. For two days he ran around the valleys, mountains and grandeur of France, pretending to be there to magnify Emmanuel Macron 's ambition to become his first interlocutor on the opposite side.
Disturbance of the West
In reality, "Xi" chose the Eiffel Tower to send a clear signal to the shaky occupant of the White House , that Joe Biden who had addressed him with the least effective of insults: a dictator. The Franco-Chinese walk on the Champs Élysées is an encrypted message: we are not isolated, ready to dialogue with those who, at least in words, like France, profess to be capable of loosening the "umbilical cord" with American intrusiveness in Europe. The triangle of the Chinese visit is all close to " Checkpoint Charlie ", the border line between East and West. After Paris, today, Xi Jinping comes from the most Putinian of European leaders, Viktor Orban who is President of Hungary. Not a courtesy visit, but a clear attempt to strengthen the geopolitical axis alternative to American supremacy in the ancient continent. And it is no coincidence that the last Chinese stop will be in Serbia. Waiting for him is Aleksandar Vučić, the most precarious prime minister on the European stage, a stone's throw away from joining the European Union and half a step away from Vladimir Putin's Russia.
No Italy
However, Xi Jinping will not come to Italy. And there was no doubt about it, after the premature departure of the Bel Paese from the "Silk Road", reducing relations to the ordinary path of foreign "partnership". The heirs of Mao Tse-Tung did not appear desperate. By applying the most advanced technique of the "gentle gait", without resorting to invasion proclamations, the men of the "Party-State" have decided to surround the energy future of Europe, starting from the most isolated land, Sardinia.
Energy Harakiri
“Made in China” did not need to develop great strategies to get its hands on the island. If anything, it was a sort of geopolitical "harakiri" by Italy which, in fact, sold off the energy dominion of the island to China. A devastating choice if you only look at the global strategic and energy scenario. Italy, with its, at least apparently, more enlightened " stakeholders ", has decided, in fact, to put Sardinia totally in the hands of Beijing, as well as handing over to it, even paying a high price, the phantom green "conversion" of the island .
Dragon & Serpent
The "Chinese hands" on Sardinia, unlike what one might imagine, are not a media push. If anything, a fact: documented, measurable, evident to the naked eye. An invasion that advances more and more every day, from the north to the south of the island. The China of the "Dragon", in fact, seized the opportunity and, in turn, decided, with the "shrewdness" of a "Snake", to insinuate itself everywhere. Here, in Sardinia, at a distance of 9,000 kilometers from the land of Confucius , everything comes from ancient China: from the supply of photovoltaic raw materials, with millions of panels produced in the most distant provinces of the Chinese empire, to the gigantic lithium batteries , yet another "noose around the neck" for the Sardinian economy. To this endless invasion of silicon mirrors and containers loaded with lithium we must add the latest move by Xi 's men and women: directly producing solar energy and incentives in Sardinia.
"Sweet Power"
An operation built silently in the depths of world finance, applying the perfidious technique of "soft power": it imposes itself, but it cannot be seen. The takeover of the thousand-hectare photovoltaic project in the land of Nurra, in northern Sardinia, potentially one of the largest expanses in the world, acquired by the Chinese in recent weeks through a Spanish "spy" team, is only the dress rehearsal of what can deploy the “communist” strategy in the Mediterranean.
Sovereignists & Chinese
The question is obligatory: can a Government that defines itself as "sovereignist" ignore and allow this type of incursion into an asset , the energy one, which is strategic and delicate like few others, effectively putting one of the switches in the energy system in "Chinese hands"? of your country? The silence on this matter reveals two disturbing hypotheses: the Chinese acted in defiance of secret services and " golden power " or the "coup" was carried out with the complicity of several subjects, perhaps in key positions in Italian energy management . The documents will reveal the truth about this Chinese "incursion" into Sardinia's energy future.
Panels and batteries
Nothing, however, remains to be discovered about what is happening on the other two sides: photovoltaic panels and batteries. On the island, there is not a single expanse of photovoltaic that is not marked " Made in China ". Even the Americans from JP Morgan use Beijing's panels, thanks to which they are devastating the slopes of Monte Arcosu and the hills of Ottana with immense photovoltaic expanses. From the promontories of Gallura to those of Campidano, the pallets of panels all have the indelible mark of the Dragon, all arriving from the other side of the world.
Silicon addiction
A "dependency" that leaves no escape, transforming the Island into the most impressive "depot" of Chinese silicon, destined to expand dramatically with the investments of the "Dragon" who has already made it clear that, if others do not use their panels, the Chinese companies will do it themselves. Not a threat, but a pressing need, given that all the data on the production of Chinese solar "mirrors" reveal a massive overproduction compared to the internal use of the Eastern energy transition. An invasion that Europe itself would like to stem with duties and countermeasures, but which it does not have the strength to introduce precisely because the Chinese monopoly has already cornered the already limited Western production.
The landing of lithium
Added to this is the landing on the island of a mountain of lithium. From the Sardinian ports, in fact, there is a daily transshipment of hundreds of trucks that are flooding most of the island's electricity facilities with Chinese batteries, both state and private companies. Construction has just begun on the Quartucciu battery, the largest on the island with 180 megawatts. Those of Portovesme are multiplying, over 120 megawatts, of Fiume Santo, another 100 mw, up to Codrongianus, Selargius, Furtei, Sanluri, Oristano and Nulvi. A total of one thousand lithium containers, for a total battery of 800 megawatts, almost like two power plants. An investment that to date has brought the Chinese over 400 million euros. With this drop of batteries, the same ones banned by the United States for security reasons, Sardinia will be totally "hostage" of China. The Sardinians, in the end, will no longer have the minimum energy necessary for development and growth, but at the same time they will have become a new Chinese "colony" in the Mediterranean. With the silence and complicity of many.