In the spring of 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping came to Rome, and Italy became the first country (G7) to join the Belt and Road.Hundreds of reporters from the Boeing 747 from Beijing, and the whole high -end hotels surrounded by the greenery surrounded by the Green City Center Park in China are only 300 meters from the US Embassy.Including Yang Jieyu, Wang Yi, He Lifeng and Ding Xuexiang.At that time, Yang Jiechi, the director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee of the Mainland Government, retired after the 20th National Congress of the Mainland Government. After Xi Jinping broke the convention and moved towards the third term, Wang Yi, who was originally the Minister of Foreign Affairs, took over the duties of the mainland government.Gao Sheng was Deputy Prime Minister.
On March 23, 2019, under the witness of Xi Jinping and then Italian Prime Minister Giuseppeconte, He Lifeng, director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China and Italian Economic Minister Luigi Di Maio signed, signed the China National Development and Reform Commission.One Belt and Road memorandum, the content includes cooperation areas such as transportation, logistics, infrastructure, finance, culture, renewable energy and communications.
Four years have passed, but this darkest diplomatic drama is a thunderous rain and heavy rain. The port investment has repeatedly delayed. Confed strictly controls the 5G equipment specifications, which has reduced the space for Huawei to exhibit.The former European Central Bank President Dracori, who was then the Prime Minister, used the "Golden Power" exclusively of the Prime Minister to veto the strategic assets such as semiconductor equipment, robots, drones, etc., and said that he would carefully evaluate the Belt and Road InitiativeEssence
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Although the specific results are limited, persuading Italy to join the Belt and Road Initiative seems to pry open a crack in the G7 Democratic Alliance, which is the best model for China ’s foreign propaganda, but it has also become a puppet in the United States.Beijing preach and China are all ancient cultural countries with a long history. They also use the name of the "new Silk Road" to praise the long -term relationship between the two countries. They can be traced back to the prosperity of the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire.The Italian government hopes that this memorandum will make the economic exchanges between the two sides.It means that China Trade is indeed more enthusiastic. The bilateral trade volume has grown from 44.6 billion euros (about S $ 65.2 billion) in 2019 to 73.9 billion euros in 2022.However, the new Silk Road is like a single road. Italy's trade deficit with China expands from 18.7 billion euros in 2019 to 41.1 billion euros in 2022.
During the 2022 election, Giorgia Meloni of the Right -Right -Right -Right -Right -Right -Right -Right -right Italian Brothers (FDI) and the pro -business Italian Entry Party (FI) and the excerpts of the Alliance Party (Lega) campaign to support Italy in order to support Italy.Join the Lord of the Alliance Party in the Belt and Road Initiative, and Meloni loses sincerity to the United States by showing good to Taiwan.In a written interview with the Taiwan Agency, she said: "Taiwan will be an important concern of Italy," and pointed out: "Joining the Belt and Road Initiative is a huge mistake. If Ming must have signed memo updates, I can hardly see suitable political conditions."Say is still in the ear. On November 16, 2022, it became the first female prime minister in Italy to go to Bali, Indonesia in less than a month.During the hours of talks, Taiwan became an invisible island, and no one talked about the Belt and Road.
After Wang Yi took over as the director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Committee, he immediately came to Europe in February this year and stayed in Rome to consolidate the Belt and Road in Italy.The five -year -old Belt and Road memorandum will expire in March 2024. Without any objection to any party, it will automatically renew for five years.If Melonney fulfilled the election promise to withdraw from the Belt and Road, the Chinese side must be notified three months before the expiration, that is, before the end of this year.Now she goes back and retreat, if she stays in the Belt and Road, and has a small amount of fat on voters, it is difficult to prove to the United States that they are all allies who have firmly defended democratic values; if they leave the Belt and Road, Italy will not escape China to retaliate in China, at least to withstand economic coercionEssence
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Victoria in Australia signed a memorandum and framework agreement with China in 2018 and 2019, respectively.In 2020, Australia called for investigation of the origin of the crown disease to anger Beijing, and exported to Chinese barley, beef, lobster, wine, and coal suffering from high tariffs and other restrictions.When the Australian Federal Government cited the Foreign Arrangement Policy Law in 2021 to cancel the Belt and Road Agreement, saying that they violated Australian foreign policy, that is, Beijing's protest was attracting Beijing.Compared with the United States, Australia lacks a tool for fighting against Beijing's economic revenge. The wines exported to China have fallen by 97%, and many wineries that are difficult to find a buyer have closed.After nearly a year after the new Labor government has worked hard, China has recently begun to show signs of relaxation.
Australia's front -car lesson made Meloni dare not act lightly, but when she went to Japan to participate in the G7 summit in May, she had to explain to the allies and clarify her Chinese policy.She released vague winds through the cabinet members, saying that the Belt and Road renewal is consistent with the United States, the European Union and NATO routes.However, when she explicitly supports Ukraine, she generously said, "There is no hypocritical to treat invasion as peace", and in Taiwan ’s social media, and insisting on providing weapons to Kiev, her cross -strait position is still ambiguous.
As soon as French President Macron finished the China trip, Beijing immediately took a military exercise around the Taiwan Strait to retaliate against Taiwan's Tsai Ing -wen in the United States.The Congress of the Italian Brother Party of Melonney's Italian Brothers, originally expected to start to Taiwan on April 11, but shouted at the last moment, because of "international situation tensions" and "China (mainland) and Taiwan and Taiwan and Taiwan"Friction".However, at the same time, the current Secretary -General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tripidi, was not afraid of tensions and was participating in the 3rd China International Consumer Products Expo in Hainan.Italy is the main guest of this year. In addition to the 1800 square meters of the National Pavilion, there are also chamber of commerce, with a total of 147 brands participating in the exhibition.
Macron was interviewed on the aircraft returning to France. Some Europe should not be a mediocrity in the United States, to seek strategic autonomy, and not involved in the Taiwan Strait conflict, causing a stir.However, this remark may set up the down steps of the Belt and Road Initiative of Melonini, under the name of strategic autonomy, and adopt a renewal but shelved circuitous path to avoid anger China.However, at the moment when the game of power is even more hot, it is difficult for the United States to blur the attitude towards this and open one eye to close one eye.
The author is a reporter who lives in Italy