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Italy’s Warm Embrace of China Cools as Virus Tests Trade Ties

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Last year Italy’s government — then run by a populist coalition — thumbed its nose at fellow Group of Seven industrial powers when it signed on to President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative.