2024-07-29 11:56:44
Georgia Meloni, Italian prime minister, would be grateful these days that China is more pragmatic than spiteful. Far-right politics is coming cord los two relations (“restart”, he specified) in his first official trip to China. During your five-day visit, more than ever, a hit will float that still plays here: yours withdrawal of the New Silk Roadhim megaproject with leading presidents.
On the first day good idea and the insults. To meet with prime minister, Li QiangA three-year plan sets out to implement the agreements already signed and open new areas of cooperation: Vehicle construction, green energy, artificial intelligence, aerospace sector…. “It is an expression of our desire to start a new phase, to restart cooperation,” Meloni celebrated. “We have a lot of work ahead of us that will help in these difficult times for the world,” Li added. And Meloni quickly pointed to those imbalance of trade balance flute 70.000 million euros and to those Chinese market obstacles to international actors. There Li replied dismissively: “We hope that Italy will provide a good business ecosystem without discrimination to Chinese companies.”
Italy He vigorously defends in Brussels responsibility to the Chinese electric vehicles and Meloni frequents the European hardiness that needs to tear itself away from Beijing in important sectors, pointing to the credibility of an accusation. FROM China Those old complaints about protecting your security sound hypocritical when the Sun is fried with tariffs. The visit of the Prime Minister of Italy indicates the schizophrenia of Europe with China: Rome and Beijing have signed a cooperation agreement on electric vehicles and renewable energies because they are, according to Meloni, sectors in which China leads the game -world race and “ready to share.” knowledge with its partners.
The punishment of Brussels
They are also the Chinese arms that Brussels and Washington are suffering no matter how much they need them for their rapid power transition. In this paradoxical right he signed the Italian giant Stellantisowner of the Fiat historyA joint venture with a Chinese startup, Leapmotor, to sell electric vehicles in Europe.
An Italian newspaper described Xi in 2019 as “the patriarch of Rome.” The president was entertained with a gargantuan dinner enlivened by the tenor Andrea Bocelli to celebrate Italy’s entry into its New Silk Road, his most personal and megalomaniacal project. The network of infrastructure and trade has reached the edge of Europe with many countries in the East and the Balkans, but Italy is another matter: the cradle of Western civilization, the founder of the EU and a member of the G-7.
It is one of the best days of Chinese diplomacy. His departure, ordered by Meloni, was one of the worst. The Prime Minister described it as “critical error” and announced his withdrawal because, in his opinion, he did not bring the promised benefits. It is a relief for Brussels and Washington.
Las friction with China They are not rare or recent. Already as Berlusconi’s minister, he called for the withdrawal of the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and did not enjoy his position in power.. He has criticized Beijing’s business practices and his government blocked a Chinese state-owned company from buying tire maker Pirelli.
The national press is not easy to forgive those who have offended China, but these days it seems amnesiac. Without any tangential confrontation and without more than necessary anger towards his withdrawal from Xi’s business initiative. He even justified itWorld Times’the most dissident newspaper: “It is not because he refuses to cooperate with China or his beliefs, but because of the great pressure he suffers from the United States and other Western powers.”
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