“If Italy does not renew the BRI, it will inevitably send a message of non-confidence towards China’s global initiatives, signalling a reversion of the upward trend of the pre-Covid years, when the BRI seemed unstoppable.”
Enrico Fardella (ChinaMed Project, T.wai & University of Naples L’Orientale) is interviewed in the article “China-bound Tajani to face balancing act on BRI” on Decode39.
Head of Project
Enrico Fardella is Director of the ChinaMed Project developed by the TOChina Hub, an integrated academic platform of the University of Torino, T.wai and ESCP Business School. He is Associate Professor at the University of Naples “L'Orientale” and Visiting Scholar at John Cabot University.
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