Italian President Sergio
Mattarella warned about the danger of possible international
trade wars during a lecture at Shanghai's Fudan University
Friday as part of his visit to China.
"We cannot think that we can face epochal challenges, such
big problems, without a common effort - no one can," said
Mattarella.
"Nor can we risk the delicate structure of international
relations being shaken by trade wars sparked by actions and
reactions...
"It will be simpler to emerge from a complex economic
situation via coordinated action, rather than disordered,
frenetic unilateral actions.
"The experience of the European Union confirms that the
capacities of the single States put together are greater than
the sum of the parts".
He added that Italy and China agreed on the need to "impose
greater incisiveness on the international governance processes
to make them fit to govern globalization in which inequality
threatens to take the global order to breaking point".
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