China is willing to work with Italy “to intensify strategic communication, consolidate strategic mutual trust and get rid of all distractions”. In his telephone conversation yesterday with the Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio, the Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi he said Beijing is willing to conduct closer high-level exchanges, facilitate personnel exchanges and promote the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”, the so-called new silk road, with Italy.
Wang, in the Chinese official media report, also urged the two sides to strengthen cooperation in areas such as science and technology innovation, aerospace, clean energy, digital economy and third-party markets, and to push cooperation mutually beneficial for greater results and for jointly boosting global economic recovery.
Relations between China and the EU were also discussed in the telephone conversation. Beijing also hopes that Europe “will adhere to strategic autonomy, practice true multilateralism and promote long-term stability and development” of relations with China, it said yesterday. Wang Yi in the interview with Di Maio. Wang said he also hoped Italy would play a constructive role in this regard. “In the face of unprecedented global challenges, all countries should insist on cooperation instead of inciting divisions, respect each other instead of launching political attacks and taking responsibility instead of shirking them or shifting the blame,” he said. concluded the Chinese minister.
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