Prime minister seeks to stabilise relations during visit to Beijing but also insists trade must be ‘more fair’
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has pledged to “relaunch” Italy’s relations with China at the start of an official visit to the country that follows her dramatic decision last year to pull out of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. Meloni met China’s premier Li Qiang on Sunday at the start of a five-day trip that she said was a “demonstration of the will to begin a new phase, to relaunch our bilateral co-operation” after the turbulence.
” Michele Geraci, a former Italian government official who championed Rome’s joining the BRI in 2019, said Beijing would also probably be keen to leave recent setbacks behind. “China’s goal will be to pretend that everything is smooth,” he said. “They have no great interest in highlighting that Italy exited the BRI. They don’t like it, but they don’t want to make a big fuss.
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