• 5 months ago
Evoking the old Silk Road travelled by Marco Polo, Meloni said her five-day trip to China aims to relaunch bilateral cooperation with Beijing.
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00:00Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on her
00:06first official visit to China.
00:11Maloney says her five-day trip aims to relaunch bilateral cooperation and explore new forms
00:18of collaboration between the two nations.
00:21The best way to celebrate these two anniversaries is to maintain that channel that was started
00:29700 years ago by Marco Polo, to promote economic, commercial, cultural and scientific relations
00:39but also multilateral dialogue in a very complex time like the one we are living in, because
00:44the world around us is changing.
00:47Xi Jinping echoed Maloney's sentiments and highlighted the historical mutual trust between
00:52China and Italy.
01:16Maloney's meeting with Xi Jinping follows her appearance at a joint business forum
01:33with Chinese Premier Li Cheng, during which the pair signed a package of agreements aimed
01:39at strengthening industrial relations between their countries.
01:47The agreements included a pledge to increase cooperation on electric vehicles, which have
01:52recently become a symbol of growing trade tensions between China and the EU.

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