Satellite cinese su Taiwan, Blinken e Israele, Attal nuovo premier francese 🗞️ Rassegna 10/01/2024

| 10 gennaio 2024

Punto Stampa a Cura di: Daniele Barnaba
Conducono: Andrea Alesiani, Barbara Marzialetti

Argomenti principali della giornata:

Blinken incontra il Primo Ministro israeliano Netanyahu a Tel Aviv;
Si terranno questa settimana le udienze all’AIA su un caso intentato dal Sudafrica che accusa Israele di genocidio nella guerra di Gaza;
Si è tenuto a dicembre un incontro segreto tra Ucraina e alleati a Riyadh riguardante un piano per la pace ma l’incontro non ha portato a grandi progressi;
Dopo le dimissioni di Élisabeth Borne, Gabriel Attal viene nominato Primo Ministro francese;
La Corea del Sud ha approvato una legge che eliminerà gradualmente l'allevamento, la macellazione e la vendita di carne di cane entro il 2027.

Israele

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tel Aviv's Kirya military base on Tuesday and then with his war cabinet. Blinken urged Israeli leaders to seek a path towards the creation of Palestinian state as a way to resolve the long-running wider conflict.
After his meetings with Washington's Arab allies, he (Blinken) said they wanted closer relations with Israel but only if that included a "practical pathway" to a Palestinian state. (Wall Street Journal: Blinken Meets Arab Leaders on Shape of Post-War Gaza)
After weeks of U.S. pressure to ease its assault, Israel says it is moving from full-blown to more targeted warfare in northern Gaza, while maintaining intensive combat in southern areas.
Three members of Hezbollah were killed on Tuesday in a strike in the south of Lebanon, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters, after a top Hezbollah commander was killed in the area on Monday.
Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said [...] that his group did not want to expand the war from Lebanon, "but if Israel expands (it), the response is inevitable to the maximum extent required to deter Israel".

In its 84-page filing South Africa says that by killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious mental and bodily harm and by creating conditions on life "calculated to bring about their physical destruction", Israel is committing genocide against them.
The hearings will take place on Jan 11 and 12. South Africa and Israel will both have two hours on separate days to make their case for or against emergency measures. There will be no witness testimony and no cross-examinations. The presentation will be mostly legal arguments brought by state officials and their teams of international lawyers.
The court will not make a final determination on South Africa's genocide allegations until a hearing of the case on the merits, which is likely years away.

L’articolo seguente (prodotto da Ludovico Zanette) è una sintesi tradotta della serie in tre parti A Post-Mortem of Ukraine’s Offensive del podcast The Russian Contingency pubblicato su War on The Rocks. In questi tre episodi gli analisti Michael Kofman, Rob Lee, e Dara Massicot condividono le loro osservazioni sulla controffensiva ucraina e sulle prospettive della Guerra Russo-Ucraina per il 2024. Le analisi e opinioni in questo articolo provengono esclusivamente dal contenuto di quella conversazione.

A secret meeting took place last month between Ukraine, its Group of Seven allies and a small group of Global South countries to try to rally support for Kyiv’s conditions for holding peace talks with Russia, according to people familiar with the matter.
There was no major progress at the latest meeting, held in Riyadh [...] and China, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates didn’t send their representatives, the people said.
Ukraine and its allies have planned another meeting of the broader group in Switzerland next week ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Francia:

Gabriel Attal promised to be bold and act fast to help the middle class weather the rising cost of living, after President Emmanuel Macron, seeking to breathe new life into his second term, on Tuesday made him France's youngest ever prime minister.
Attal has polled as one of France's most popular politicians in recent months. A Macron loyalist, he became a household name as government spokesman during the COVID pandemic and earned a reputation as a smooth communicator.
Attal replaces Elisabeth Borne, 62, only the second woman to hold the prime minister role in France. A dutiful and hard-working technocrat, her year and a half in office was marked by months of protests over the pension overhaul and riots over the police shooting of a teenager of north African descent.

Unione Europea:

Microsoft's financial backing for ChatGPT maker OpenAI may be subject to European Union merger rules, EU antitrust regulators said on Tuesday.
Microsoft said its partnership with OpenAI forged in 2019 has fostered more AI innovation and competition while preserving independence for both companies."The only thing that has changed recently is that Microsoft will now have a non-voting observer on OpenAI's Board," a Microsoft spokesperson said.
The Commission on Tuesday also gave interested parties until March 11 to provide feedback on competition in virtual worlds and generative artificial intelligence.

Asia e Pacifico

Corea del Sud:

Dog meat will no longer be allowed in South Korea, capping a decadeslong campaign against a controversial practice that many locals have come to view with unease.
With no dissenting vote, lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that will phase out the farming, slaughter and sale of dog meat by 2027. Violators will face a prison sentence of up to three years or a fine of roughly $23,000.
The three-year grace period was granted following a backlash by South Korea’s dog-meat industry, which argues the ban threatens their economic livelihoods and violates their human rights.

Cina:

Taiwan frequently accuses China of interfering in its elections. [...] With just days to go before a closely contested presidential poll [...] Taiwanese officials are finding evidence of meddling everywhere [...]
On Tuesday [...] halfway through a news conference to warn about the threat of Chinese election interference, a wave of emergency smartphone alerts rippled through the ballroom of Taipei’s Regent Hotel [...] Labeled “Presidential Alert,” the message warned Taiwan’s 24 million people, [...] that a Chinese rocket had just flown over southern Taiwan. Within minutes, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry had clarified [...] that the launch involved a satellite, not a missile.
After a close reading of the alert, Taiwan’s top diplomat cast the launch as a prime example of Beijing’s “gray-zone” tactics.