Italy plans to pull out of the controversial Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said during an interview released on Sunday.
China's President Xi Jinping applauds during a signing ceremony of partnership agreements following a meeting with Italy's prime minister at Villa Madama in Rome on March 23, 2019 as part of a two-day visit to Italy.
Italy was the only major Western country to join the agreement with China, a massive infrastructure spending project China envisions would result in a new Silk Road that can connect China with the rest of Asian and Europe, earning scorn from someBut the decision to join the initiative was made under the country's previous leadership, something Crosetto said was an"improvised and atrocious act.
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