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Italy’s Embrace of China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Is a Snub to Washington
Italy’s attempts to cozy up to Xi, are drawing rebukes both inside and outside the country.
20 Mar 2019, 05:35 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- More than seven centuries after a 17-year-old Marco Polo set off from Venice on a voyage that would culminate at the court of Kublai Khan, the Italian city continues to tout itself as the westernmost point of the ancient Silk Road, China’s gateway into Europe. Now it faces some competition from Trieste, an increasingly busy port city on the northeastern edge of Italy, whose contributions to commerce and cu...
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