Meloni meets Chinese PM, sees 'new phase of cooperation'

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 28 - Premier Giorgia Meloni announced she was signing a three-year action plan to revive cooperation with China at the start of a meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang in Beijing on Sunday.
    Meloni is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday during her first official visit to China since she took the helm of the Italian government in 2022.
    "I am very happy to be here for this government's first official trip, which has been preceded by several high-level meetings, as a demonstration of the will to start a new phase, to relaunch our bilateral cooperation in the year that marks the 20th anniversary of our global strategic partnership," Meloni said, announcing the signing of "a three-year action plan to experiment new forms of cooperation". Meloni's government last year pulled out of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), having been the only G7 country to sign up in 2019 to the huge infrastructure programme that seeks to build of sort of modern-day Silk Road. (ANSA).