Can Italy leave the Belt and Road Initiative and still arrive at the same destination with Beijing?
Illustration by Valeria Petrone
Even as breakup messages go, the one Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni had for Beijing earlier this month was exceptionally delicate. Italy’s government is looking at quitting the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — Chinese president Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy program — but Meloni insisted her government still wanted to do business with China.
“There is no foreclosure on our part towards China… but on the Belt and Road Initiative, decisions must still be made bas
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