Michele Danesi is a Research Assistant at ISPI Asia Center. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Languages, markets and cultures of East Asia, with a focus on Chinese language and history, and a Master’s degree in International relations at the University of Bologna. He has been assistant researcher at Asia Institute (Bologna) and the Department of Social and Political Studies at the University of Bologna, where he has worked on Asia, Europe and EU-China relations. Main areas of interest in his research are: Chinese foreign policy, China’s space industry and China-South Asia relations.