“Meloni will be certainly met by strong political opposition, both within Europe and Italy, but it will be mostly linked to her domestic policies and her attempt to be more assertive towards the EU. However, a critical stance towards China has become quite shared among most of the political forces in Italy and in the EU, and it can function as a balancer of [Meloni’s other] more controversial positions.”
Enrico Fardella (ChinaMed Project, T.wai) is interviewed on the future of Italy-China relations in the article “Italy’s prospective PM Meloni poised to shake up ties with China” on the South China Morning Post.
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Enrico Fardella is Director for Area Studies of the ChinaMed Business Program and Director of the ChinaMed Project. He is Associate Professor of the History Department of Peking University, Director of the Center for Mediterranean Area Studies of Peking University and Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.
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