Sources at the premier's office
said Monday "in the collaboration with China, as with any other
country, we place the utmost attention on the defence of our
national interests, the protection of strategic infrastructure,
including that of telecommunications, and therefore
cybersecurity. The text (of the possible memorandum on the Belt
and Road Initiative, BRI, or 'Silk Road'), at Italy's request,
sets out with great clarity this possible collaboration in the
principles, dear to the EU, of transparency and financial and
environmental sustainability".
The sources said the Italian initiative on the BRI, "set out
on an economic and commercial plane, does not redesign the
framework of our political relations and the euro Atlantic
placement of our country".
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