Meloni to Tell Biden Privately Italy Plans Break With China
- Italian premier plans to exit China’s Belt and Road Initiative
- Biden will be asked to include Italy in calls on Ukraine
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is looking to build up a relationship with Joe Biden by pledging to break with China and plans to brief the US president in person Thursday on the delicate choreography of that split.
Officials in Rome have been privately reassuring the US that she will exit a controversial investment pact with China, yet Meloni is not planning to go public on her decision to pull out during her short trip to Washington, according to people familiar with her thinking who spoke on condition of anonymity.