Italy looks likely to quit China’s Belt and Road Initiative in a blow to Beijing, far less so to Rome

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Open this photo in gallery: Workers take down a Belt and Road Forum panel in Beijing, on April 27, 2019.GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, made more than a few European politicians cringe when she was elected Prime Minister last October. She would lead a state, and a coalition government, with Euroskeptic, pro-Russia leanings. Would she become a headache for the pro-West, European Union countries? On the contrary. Ms. Meloni moved fast to prove she would not go rogue – that Italy, stuffed with U.S. military bases, would affirm its transatlantic alliance...