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The visit to China by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, “demonstrates that Italy hopes to continue to benefit from economic and commercial cooperation with China”, but that Rome does not make the mistake of being dragged “off course” when deciding withdraw from the Silk Road Agreement. On the eve of Tajani’s arrival in Beijing, the speech by Cui Hongjian, director of the Department of European Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, quoted by the Global Times, the English-language tabloid published by the People’s Daily, should be recorded. of the Communist Party of China. The Silk Road is «a long-term cooperation plan that will offer ample opportunities to the Italian economy. It is fundamental that the Italian side finds a balance with China in the search for economic cooperation, instead of limiting itself to maximizing its own interests”, noted the expert. The Global Times explains that Italy is evaluating the possibility of not renewing the cooperation agreement and the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs during the visit “could discuss the matter with China”.

“Antonio Tajani’s visit to China comes at a critical moment, when hostile voices are trying to disturb mutual economic and commercial cooperation between the two sides – continued the expert – The future of bilateral economic ties will depend, to some extent, on the series of interactions between the two party from this visit». “Although the media say that there is still no unified internal position in Italy on the renewal of the Belt and Road cooperation document with China, Antonio Tajani’s visit shows that Italy does not want that mutually beneficial cooperation is affected,” Cui stressed, according to which the growth of China-Italy trade in recent years has been faster than the growth of China-EU trade in the same period, while “the problem of the Italian trade deficit, used by some Western politicians to discredit Silk Road cooperation is just a misleading excuse.”

“If Italy is thrown off course by anti-China voices and regrettably decides to withdraw from Belt and Road cooperation, the country risks missing out on vast opportunities,” the end of Beijing’s attempt not to see the rupture of the pact signed with the Italian government at the time of Giuseppe Conte’s president.

Source: IL Tempo

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