Your account has been succesfully created.

00 days

00 hours

00 mins

00 secs

Special offer: -15%15% OFF your subscription

Consult our offers

EN FR

Scroll through edition

China, Italy
After Italy's exit from Belt and Road Initiative, Meloni hopes to renew ties with Xi

Published on 17.04.2024 at 04:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. © Francesco Fotia/Avalon/MaxPPP

After much hesitation, the Italian prime minister has decided to meet the Chinese president in Beijing. At stake is a three-year trade agreement currently being negotiated.

This article is free

Create an account to read more

Do you want a free trial before subscribing?

create a free account

Canada, China
Chinese interference in G7 countries 'systemic', report warns

A comparative study on China's informational campaigns led in all G7 countries and published in late May, recommends the setting up of a task force to fight common weaknesses, and particularly at local level.

Subscribers only Information Wars 21.05.2026

From left to right: Linda Sun, a Sino-American, and Peter Mandelson, a Briton, both of whom have been implicated in scandals that have rocked G7 countries.

China, Pakistan
Beijing demands Islamabad favour army over police for protection of Chinese interests

In a bid to stem the escalation of violence against both the Chinese diaspora and Beijing's other interests in Pakistan, the Chinese ministry of state security urged Islamabad to involve the Pakistani army in their protection.

Subscribers only Defence 15.11.2024

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers in front of a factory in Karachi where, according to the police, two Chinese nationals were shot, 5 November 2024.

China
The future of the New Silk Roads, part 1: the Chinese Communist Party and the US counter-narrative

Intelligence Online has seen the documents behind the CCP's thinking on the New Silk Roads' future in the medium and long term, providing insight into Xi Jinping's strategy for his ‘project of the century' launched in 2013 and which continues to adapt to bilateral relations with Western countries.

Subscribers only Information Wars 11.10.2024

China's President Xi Jinping in San Francisco, California, on 15 November 2023.

China, South America
The CCP steps up its presence in South America ahead of Xi Jinping's expected trip to Peru

Beijing's ambassador to Lima, Song Yang, is using three diplomatic meetings in Peru to support the Chinese Communist Party in implementing Xi Jinping's plan for the region.

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 04.09.2024

Italy
Giorgia Meloni chooses defence community over foreign ministry for long-term strategy study

With growing rivalry between Meloni and foreign minister Antonio Tajani for control of foreign policy, the Italian prime minister has turned to the defence sector for a study of Italy's long-term strategy options.

Subscribers only Defence 26.07.2024

Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and her foreign minister, Antonio Tajani (left), on 26 June 2024 in Rome.

China, Italy
Meloni's new business plans with Beijing

Despite having left the Silk Roads initiative, Italy's prime minister is to fly to Beijing at the end of July in a bid to attract Chinese investment, notably in the electric car sector, even as the EU is trying to limit the spread of Chinese EVs on the continent.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 18.07.2024

The Agencies' Gazette
Scholarships scrutinised, Afghanistan War Commission, Turkish intelligence academy, Italian PM's dilemma

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceUniversities told to watch China Scholarship Council grants

United StatesAnother CIA veteran joins Afghanistan War Commission

TurkeyIntelligence academy open for enrolment

Italy/ChinaGiorgia Meloni's dilemma

Subscribers only 01.07.2024

Spotlight | Italy
France looks to Italy to see how far-right premier won over intelligence community

The possibility of a far-right government in France is reminiscent of Italy, where Giorgia Meloni was at pains to reassure her security services and make clear her attachment to NATO and the European Union on strategic issues.

Subscribers only Agencies 01.07.2024

Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi in Rome on 24 June 2024.

Spotlight | China, France, Hungary, Serbia
Budapest, Belgrade, Paris: a glimpse inside Xi Jinping's upcoming European tour

Intelligence Online has obtained access to the plans for the Chinese president's European tour, due to take place in three weeks' time. Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit Budapest, Belgrade and Paris, with a full agenda in all three cities.

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 10.04.2024

China, Hungary
CCP takes BRI a step further with Global Security Initiative

China has asked some countries with which it enjoys strong bilateral relations to subscribe to Xi Jinping's vision of world order, as laid out in his Global Security Initiative. It is a new China-centric geopolitical viewpoint that goes further than Beijing's Belt & Road Initiative goals.

Subscribers only Information Wars 04.04.2024

China, France, Italy
Beijing looks to France after Italy setback

Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to France is an opportunity for Beijing to advance its economic and political interests in Europe. China is counting on French support thanks to a solid economic partnership after December's Italian snub.

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 26.02.2024

French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Paris on 20 February 2024.

China, Italy
China tests new propaganda strategy to improve image in Italy

The Chinese Communist Party wants to get its BRICS message across using Italians who are seen as close to Beijing.

Subscribers only Information Wars 21.11.2023

The BRICS and the New World Order conference will be held on 30 November at the University of La Sapienza in Rome.

Spotlight | China, Pakistan
China bets on more security and PR to complete its Silk Road in Pakistan

With geopolitical tensions in the Himalayas on the rise, the Chinese Communist Party is determined to finish the China-Pakistan economic corridor. To do so, Beijing is planning on bringing more Chinese private security companies on board and boosting its PR campaign in the regions involved.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 14.11.2023

Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) and Pakistani Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar at the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on 19 October 2023.

China, Italy
Italy's Silk Road withdrawal poses conundrum for Meloni's China agenda

Under fire from her own government, the Italian prime minister faces renewed pressure to prevent Italy-China relations giving rise to a governmental or diplomatic crisis after the decision to pull out of Beijing's major New Silk Road project.

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 14.09.2023

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the G20 summit in New Delhi in September 2023.

China, Italy
Giorgia Meloni braced to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing this month

Italian diplomats and intelligence officers are working heads down to help pull Italy out of China's Belt & Road Initiative while maintaining good trade relations with Beijing.

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 06.09.2023

15% OFF your subscription

Special offer: Only 8d and 17h to take advantage of it

Consult our offers

This offer is open to all new subscribers and runs until 12/06/2026

Headlines

The chairman of the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, Representative Rick Crawford, is set to revive the proposal to centralise counter-espionage activities.

Spotlight | United States New battle brewing in Washington over counter-intelligence China, India, Russia China seeks new BRICS+ strategy for 2027 summit

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during a plenary session held as part of the BRICS+ format at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on 24 October 2024.

Germany BND warns business leaders of Russian threat UAE, United Kingdom Foreign office had to 'man-manage' ex-prince Andrew

Anti-monarchy protesters holding placards bearing the image of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor demonstrate in London on 9 March 2026.

France, Georgia DGSE at heart of high-profile espionage case exposed by Georgian intel

The Paris-based headquaters of France's DGSE foreign intelligence agency.

France France's DGSE rejects growing fortune teller role