Giovanni Vimercati
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Giovanni Vimercati is a freelance journalist, critic and media analyst. Originally from Italy, he graduated in Film Studies in London and worked as a film critic while managing an independent video store, The Film Shop in Stoke Newington. In 2008 he founded the Celluloid Liberation Front, a multi-use(r) name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by a desiring multitude of insurgent spect-actors. Under this pseudonym he continues to write for established film publications. His lifelong passion for politics found an outlet in China.org.cn where he is now a columnist occasionally also writing about Chinese cinema. |
April 26, 2013
- Libya: Divided and ruled, by foreign capital
- In Libya, Western interests reap what they sow.
April 22, 2013
- America must look within to confront violence
- In the wake of recent atrocities, it is time for a serious mainstream debate about the root causes of America's culture of violence.
April 9, 2013
- Thatcher is dead, but Thatcherism is alive and well
- The “Iron Lady” is no longer with us, but her legacy of free market economics influences British domestic and foreign policy to this day.
April 3, 2013
- What Xi’s diplomatic agenda tells us about the emerging world order
- Chinese new president’s first overseas trip points to a growing economic relationship between Southern states.
March 24, 2013
- An armed peaceful rise
- China's military budget increase entirely justified, and is a reaction to growing U.S. interference in regional issues.
January 9, 2013
- Internet censorship beyond China
- Do attackers of Chinese censorship in the Western media see the hypocrisy of Western governments' actions against Julian Assange?
December 6, 2012
- 'Back to 1942' portrays famine with a lavish budget
- "Back to 1942," Feng Xiaogang's portrayal of the wartime Henan famine, grips viewers with its realistic imagery, but fails to win hearts with its actors' performances.
October 22, 2012
- Is privatization the way forward for the Chinese economy?
- Considering the gravity of the ongoing economic recession in the West and the preoccupying entity of the Euro crisis, it is shocking to witness the unflinching belief in the inexistent benefits of privatization.
October 8, 2012
- Ghost of Sino-Japanese Wars haunts Diaoyu dispute
- The legacy of Sino-Japanese Wars continues to cast a shadow over the relations between China and Japan.
September 15, 2012
- China's welfare state will be the envy of the West
- Europe's seemingly blind belief in privatization has assumed evangelical dimensions. China, however, is investing in public spending.
