Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed to “relaunch” relations with China during her first visit to Beijing since taking office, announcing that she has signed a three-year plan to deepen cooperation.
“There is growing insecurity at an international level, and I think that China is inevitably a very important interlocutor to address all these dynamics,” she told Xi on Monday at a meeting at Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
The two countries must “think together on how to guarantee stability, how to guarantee peace”, Meloni said.
Meloni is visiting China for the first time since she took office nearly two years ago and has pledged to “relaunch” ties strained by her country’s departure from Beijing’s vast Belt and Road infrastructure project late last year.
The Chinese president, in turn, hailed “long-established, friendly” ties between Beijing and Rome.
“Both sides uphold tolerance, mutual trust and mutual respect with each choosing its own development path,” he said.
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Good politicians finally doing their job negotiating and talking, not puppet warmongers
Italy is a "state with limited sovereignty" or "democracy on a short leash", it lost WWII.
Like Germany or Japan for that matter. Furthermore, it no longer has their economic and industrial weight.
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The truth is none of these European countries want to stop trade n deals with China but have to do it to appease the US govt. So, in public they’ll call for boycotts and tariffs but behind the scenes they know it’s common sense to do business with the world’s 2nd biggest economy.
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