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 ...

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 ...

Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative has not proved to be the ‘transformation game changer’ many in the region were hoping for, analysts say – as concerns grow about some projects ...