{"id":57110,"date":"2023-07-31T09:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T00:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/31\/italy-china-belt-and-road-initiative-atrocious-defence-minister"},"modified":"2023-07-31T09:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T00:25:34","slug":"italy-seeking-to-leave-atrocious-china-belt-and-road-plan-without-harming-ties-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57110","title":{"rendered":"Italy seeking to leave \u2018atrocious\u2019 China Belt and Road plan without harming ties \u2013 minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Improvised and atrocious\u2019 decision in 2019 made Italy the only major western member, says Guido Crosetto, the defence minister<\/p>\n<p>Joining China\u2019s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was an \u201catrocious\u201d decision, Italy\u2019s defence minister has said, and the issue was how to leave it without damaging ties with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Guido Crosetto said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/politica\/23_luglio_30\/crosetto-intervista-5df81a76-2e3c-11ee-a52d-5015ada51aef.shtml?refresh_ce\">interview<\/a> published on Sunday that the move made four years ago under a previous government had done little to boost exports, while Chinese exports to Italy had soared.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/31\/italy-china-belt-and-road-initiative-atrocious-defence-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Improvised and atrocious\u2019 decision in 2019 made Italy the only major western member, says Guido Crosetto, the defence ministerJoining China\u2019s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was an \u201catrocious\u201d decision, Italy\u2019s defence minister has said, and the i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,221,451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-italy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57111,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57110\/revisions\/57111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}