Why Italy wants to leave China’s Belt and Road Initiative

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After Italian media reported on Sunday that Italy was planning to leave China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the country’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni said later in the day that “there was more to Italy’s relationship with China than the BRI”, according to Reuters. Meloni clarified that a final decision on whether to leave the BRI was still to be taken. Italy is the only G7 country (the grouping of advanced economies of US, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, with the European Union as a “non-enumerated” member) to sign up for the BRI, which it did...