Chinese President visits Italy and unleashes a strong American reaction Against Rome – 22/03/2019

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Rome and entered his glowing moment in the fierce geopolitical battle unleashed by the United States to stop China and compel Italy not to sign or dilute the agreement on the New Silk Road, which would become great pivots. by sea and rail to the ports of Trieste and Genoa. The government of Rome is the only member of the Group of Seven, the great capitalist powers, which it shares with the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Great Britain and Canada, who dares to sign a pact with the Chinese. to enter the gigantic project of a trillion euros.

Beijing has put in place a fantastic investment plan to create lines of communication and infrastructure of all kinds to facilitate China's exchanges with the world.

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The ultimate goal is to make the country of Han, with 1.4 billion inhabitants, a country so powerful that it will become the world's first superpower by 2050. That's the prospect that Donald Trump wants to avoid or at least delay.

Xi Jinping arrived in Rome with 500 people, businessmen, journalists, security agents and servants, with his wife, the famous former singer Pen Liyuan, who provides 200 other followers.

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The center of Rome was paralyzed by security measures to ensure the movements of the Communist leader who accumulated as much power as the founder of the People's Republic Mao Tse Tung and who was given the mandate to govern until the end of the war. end of his life. One year the 19th Congress of the single party.

The president met in the morning the head of the Italian state, which supports the initiative, but claims the "transparency" Chinese.

The United States and the European Union agree to criticize Italy because they believe that what China is an invasion. Strange because Beijing's investments in Britain, Germany and France are much larger than in the peninsula. Trump claims that China wants to seize Italy, a weak but strategic country, but in debt. The European Union says that the global negotiation of the New Silk Road must fit into the general framework of European standards and that no country can be cut on its own.

However, the document of participation in the New Silk Road had already been signed by several countries of the European Union. First Portugal, but also Poland, Hungary and Greece.

Americans fear Chinese penetration in Europe, which Washington has abused so much since Trump took office. In addition, two US ministers will travel to Beijing on November 29 and 30 to negotiate an agreement to end the trade war and, of course, they have not consulted any ally.

The activity of the day of the Chinese president, after the meeting with Mattarella, was partly formal, with visits and greetings to the main institutional personalities. He also shook hands and talked with dozens of entrepreneurs eager to do business.

In the evening, there will be a dinner at the Quirinal Palace where President Mattarella will entertain Xi Jinping and his wife. It is very significant that the strong man of the regime, the champion of far right European sovereignists, Matteo Salvini, does not participate in the agape.

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Salvini, a pious man of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who finances and supports all right-wing European parties to dislodge the European Union, must balance and sovereignty has been released this time under Trump's pressure. The American sent his ambbadador to Rome to speak with all the protagonists of the government with a smile and threaten them if they were facing the anti-Chinese strategy of Washington.

Salvini gave way. He said that "first there is security". Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his mentor, the leader of the Five-Star Movement, Luigi Di Maio, are the ones who, on the other hand, proceeded to sign the protocol of the New Silk Road. But Di Maio had to pull the hand-brake and agreed to include many conditions required by Americans to avoid open conflict.

This Saturday morning will be signed the main document but also fifteen other agreements involving companies from both countries. Italy wants to increase its exports, which amounted to 13,300 million euros in 2018, while the Chinese have all sent them for 30 billion. Rome must start its stagnant economy, with a lean growth forecast of 0.1% this year.