If Italy formally withdraws from the Belt and Road, it would be another blow to the prestige of Xi Jinping's signature foreign policy initiative. The ghosts of Chinese control or even ownership ...

Italy’s conservative government, led by Giorgia Meloni, faces a key decision: whether or not to renew Rome’s memorandum of understanding with China regarding the Belt and Road Initiative.

In 2019, Italy became the first major Western nation to join China’s Belt and Road, a global trade and infrastructure initiative modeled on the idea of the old Silk Road that had linked imperial ...

Milan, march 11 - The Italo-Chinese memorandum on the Belt and Road Initiative or 'new Silk Road' cannot lead to the colonisation of Italy, Deputy Premier and League leader Matteo Salvini said ...