Recently, Italy wants to join the Belt and Road Initiative, why should I add another word? Because they have joined before.
Italy was one of the first countries in Europe to join the Belt and Road Initiative, and under the influence of the Belt and Road Initiative, the volume of trade between China and Italy once reached a very high level. Thanks to the Belt and Road Initiative, the Italian economy has had a big rebound.
Then, in the face of the vigorous competition in Italy, the Italian government decisively decided to withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative and suspend various cooperation with China.
Although there is pressure from the Americans behind this incident, Italy joined the "Belt and Road" in 2019, and if the pressure and protests of the Americans are useful, then they will not be able to cooperate with China for five years.
In fact, the role of the Americans in putting pressure on European countries can only be said to exist, but only a little. The Americans also said that Europe should be banned from using China's 5G, but in addition to the United Kingdom, the iron-clad spokesperson of the United States in Europe, do you see that there is a second country to listen?
So Italy's choice to withdraw was entirely out of their own decision.
As a result, after withdrawing from the Belt and Road Initiative, Italy's economy collapsed directly.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani will meet with Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao in Verona, Italy on Friday, and Italian Prime Minister Meloni will go to China to beg China to take her to play.
There is an old Chinese saying that you should know this in the first place, but for Italians, this sentence does not exist. Italian politics is all about jumping sideways. Especially since Meloni came to power. As the number one person in Italy, she is in a very unstable mental state. It has played Italy's repeated sideways political stance to the extreme.
Some people may think that I am hacking Meloni when I say that she is mentally unstable, but I am just being realistic.
As a politician, Meloni's thinking is very extreme, and since she came to power by supporting ultra-nationalism, her thinking is typical of either/or, left and right. And when doing things, we don't think about the long-term impact and we don't have a tendon. It is often the case that a very short-sighted political solution comes to mind, and it is necessary to achieve it at all costs.
Sometimes it's not even a political plan, it's just her own personal problems that can influence her to make political decisions.
On October 22, 2024, Meloni was directly absent from the party's important event, and even according to the Italian news agency Ansa, Meloni was already absent-minded during her state visits to Israel and Egypt before the event.
As for the reason, it turned out to be because her boyfriend broke up with her after cheating.
Normal people, the object breaks up with himself, affects his mental state, affects his life state, and it is understandable that it is a time. But she is the number one person in Italy, and it is difficult to imagine a number one person, a national leader, because of such a thing, directly abandoning national affairs and missing important occasions.
That is, it is still a peaceful era for Europe, and she is estimated to be tortured by someone if she changes the era.
When Meloni was campaigning in China, she relied on extremist thinking and the character of "temperamental", or she may not be a persona, after all, she is such a person, who has won the empathy and support of the general public, and has successfully become the leader of Italy.
But on the international stage, this behavior is called crying of little girls. This kind of crying will not have any effect on the international level. There will even be a backlash.
International politics is an exchange of interests and a show of strength, and no one will be soft on you because you lost your husband and cried and made trouble. Meloni's act of doing things in one way and thinking about them only ended up causing huge problems for Italy.
And this time she made such a decision, I am afraid that she wants to embarrass China a little politically by withdrawing from the Belt and Road Initiative. Let China realize the role of Italy in China, so as to get more benefits from China. But the problem is that Meloni does not realize that China is the dominant party in the economic and trade exchanges between China and Italy. On the one hand, our economic situation is much better than that of Italy, and secondly, we have more partners besides Italy, on the contrary, Italy, except for China, there is no country, even the United States, Germany, France, these traditional allies of Europe and the United States, are willing to pull them.
However, as a short-sighted leader who can only think about problems on a single thread, Meloni only sees the potential benefits of grasping China, but does not see the risks involved, and finally creates such a situation.
I can only describe this in two words: deserved.