Davide Mancini

Environmental journalism and documentary | 2024 @Ocean_ORN @PulitzerCenter fellow | Member of @magazine_magma

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

Così i fertilizzanti divorano l’ossigeno nei laghi: lo scontro con gli ambientalisti e la ricerca di soluzioni più sostenibili. Dalla Tuscia alla Spagna, due esempi emblematici di come l'agricoltura intensiva altera la chimica dei corsi d'acqua. https://t.co/YXpzQijqpG

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

While the United States spends billions bombing Iran and the world watches oil prices crash, China just published the most consequential economic document of the decade. Nobody is paying attention. That is the point.

The 15th Five-Year Plan, unveiled at the National People’s Congress on 5th March, is 141 pages. It mentions artificial intelligence over 50 times. It targets 70% AI penetration across the Chinese economy by 2027 and 90% by 2030. It designates humanoid robotics as a core pillar industry with output doubling over five years. It commits to space-Earth quantum communication networks, nuclear fusion timelines, and brain-computer interfaces. It sets AI-related industries at a target value exceeding 10 trillion yuan, approximately $1.38 trillion. And it declares “extraordinary measures” for rare earths and semiconductor self-reliance.

This is not an economic plan. It is a war plan for a war the United States is not fighting because it is too busy fighting the wrong one.

The US response to Chinese technological competition is the CHIPS and Science Act, signed in 2022. It appropriated $52.7 billion for semiconductor manufacturing, including $39 billion in direct grants and a 25% investment tax credit that expires this year. It has spurred over $640 billion in private investment across 140 projects in 30 states. It created half a million jobs. By any measure, it is the most significant US industrial policy in a generation. And it covers exactly one sector of an economy-wide technological competition.

China’s plan covers every sector. AI across the entire economy. Robotics as industrial backbone. Space infrastructure. Quantum computing. Rare earth processing dominance maintained and strengthened. The CHIPS Act is a rifle. The 15th Five-Year Plan is an arsenal.

The rare earth dimension is where the plans intersect with the war. China controls 90% of global rare earth processing. Every F-35 joint strike fighter requires 920 pounds of rare earth materials. Every Patriot missile battery, every THAAD interceptor, every guided munition being expended over Iran at a rate of thousands per week depends on materials that China processes. The “extraordinary measures” in the Five-Year Plan are not defensive. They are the tightening of a supply chain that the US military cannot function without.

In April 2025, China imposed export controls on all 17 rare earth elements. The January 2027 DFARS deadline requires the Pentagon to eliminate Chinese rare earth dependency from defence procurement. That leaves a 10-to-15-year vulnerability window during which the United States is simultaneously waging a war that consumes rare-earth-dependent munitions at historic rates and attempting to build alternative supply chains that do not yet exist.

The Iran war is consuming the interceptors. China is tightening the supply chain that builds the interceptors. The Five-Year Plan is the document that formalises the tightening into national strategy.

Trump posted “Death, Fire, and Fury” on Truth Social. Xi Jinping published a 141-page plan to ensure that the materials required to deliver that fire and fury remain under Chinese control for the next fifteen years.

One leader is fighting a war. The other is winning the peace. And the 141 pages that will determine which strategy prevails were published the same week the bombs started falling.

Full analysis - https://t.co/eMrt5qYYst

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

@masechi Pinniamo questo messaggio per quando arriverà il momento in cui milioni di sfollati arriveranno dall’Iran e tu scriverei contro gli immigrati che minacciano l’identità blablabla

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

@Corriere Pensavo fosse Cerno, invece è proprio un pezzo allucinante sul Corriere! Un’opinione da bar inutile a qualsiasi dibattito. L’opinione del giornalista poltronista che deve consegnare un pezzo e dice “massì dai, questo è polemico e così tira su visualizzazioni”

[Público @publico_es]

Los accidentes con pescadores artesanales son cada vez más frecuentes, mientras que las capturas ilegales encuentran sin dificultad su camino hacia España e Italia

✍️Por @davidewop
https://t.co/eK2ahoQgn3

[Público @publico_es]

Una empresa española envasaba y exportaba pescado capturado ilegalmente en Gambia, al menos, hasta 2024

✍️Por @davidewop
https://t.co/Hi88tcbmpv

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

@Tommasocerno @tempoweb @ODG_CNOG nel caso vi siate persi l’editoriale audiovisivo del direttore. Per il corso di deontologia del giornalismo, potrebbe formare nuove generazioni di professionisti della comunicazione.

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

@Tommasocerno @tempoweb La politica pigli solo la gente per il culo, per questo sei stato senatore della repubblica, immagino. Al di là del contenuto del messaggio, se questo è il profilo di un direttore di un quotidiano, siamo veramente agli sgoccioli della credibilità.

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

@Linkiesta @carmelopalma Tutti prigionieri e tutti antisionisti quindi? Illuminici tu per piacere con la tua brillante analisi

[Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter]

In Spain & Mexico, the demand for octopus is growing, but its populations are shrinking. Fishers are holding on to traditional methods & embracing eco-certification schemes to safeguard the species.

By @Ocean_ORN @davidewop & @PaolaMargu for #Mongabay. https://t.co/sRgaPCqqXC

[Anna Gvarishvili @AnnaGvarishvili]

🇬🇪 | On this day 34 years ago, March 31, 1991, millions of Georgians came together to participate in a pivotal referendum with a simple yet profound question:

"Do you agree or disagree with restoring Georgia’s state independence based on the Act of May 26, 1918?"

An overwhelming 98.9% of Georgians answered "Yes," and just one week later, Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union as the rightful successor to the First Republic of Georgia.

Those Georgians could scarcely have imagined, even in their darkest nightmares, that 34 years later we would still be battling the toxic remnants of that evil empire. Yet here we are.

Today, tens of thousands of Georgians will gather on Rustaveli Avenue to honor and proclaim the legacy of our cherished ancestors.

Long live free Georgia!

[ADF Magazine @ADFmagazine]

China’s propaganda push in Africa includes content sharing agreements, ‘training’ African journalists, and buying media outlets to promote a positive image and censor negative pressChina’s propaganda push in Africa includes content sharing agreements, ‘training’ African journalists, and buying media outlets to promote a positive image and censor negative pressChina’s propaganda push in Africa includes content sharing agreements, ‘training’ African journalists, and buying media outlets to promote a positive image and censor negative press.

[Oxpeckers Center @OxCIEJ]

New investigation looks into the spread of thirsty gum trees in Mozambique, and their impacts on the environment + local communities ⬇️
https://t.co/Ze9IRE8Nqv
By @davidewop @JuanMazaCalleja @boamonjane, supported by @journalismfund

[Voxeurop en français @VoxeuropFR]

Au #Mozambique 🇲🇿, des entreprises européennes plantent des eucalyptus pour produire du 📜papier, au risque de menacer les communautés rurales et de l’écosystème local. Le reportage de @davidewop @juanmazacalleja et @boamonjane, av. @journalismfund : https://t.co/ggrS5zn6Bd

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

@MikeHudema Looks kinda fake news. If this is the road you’re on it means you shot the video, and there are no wildfires active right now in Portugal. So either you lie saying you’re on that road or you have a time/space machine.

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

Out of Gaza https://t.co/endN6Or0f0

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

@claudiocerasa Pacifisti

[France in the PH 🇫🇷🇵🇭 @FrenchEmbassyPH]

🇫🇷🌊 After the National Assembly, the @Senat adopted in a unanimous decision the High Seas Treaty #BBNJ, a significant move leading to #UNOC3 in #Nice2025

Committed to the oceans, France is the first country in the European Union, G7, and G20 to ratify the agreement #BlueNations

[Eduardo Saldaña @EduardoSaldania]

🇺🇸Este es el mapa de estas elecciones. Trump no solo ha ganado en compromisarios, también en el voto popular. Ha habido un giro del país hacia los republicanos (controlados por el movimiento MAGA).

[Davide Mancini @davidewop]

God blame America

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

Israel has presented "little or even no evidence of a significant Hamas presence" at northern Gaza's three main hospitals, which Israeli forces have shelled, bulldozed and otherwise destroyed, while killing patients and medical staff and detaining others https://t.co/yiGW1pLCQG