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.
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