ROME – Italy’s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said Tuesday in an assembly with his Chinese counterpart that Italy would closely monitor the implications of China’s new security measures in Hong Kong.
“I reiterated that, in combination with all our European partners, we have that Hong Kong’s stability and prosperity, based on a country’s precept, two systems, is essential,” Di Maio told journalists at a joint press convention with China. Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Similarly, it is “to preserve the maximum degree of autonomy and basic rights and freedoms” guaranteed to Hong Kong citizens, he said.
Rome is the first impediment to Wang’s five-country European tour, which includes France, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. This is Wang’s first foreigner since the coronavirus outbreak in China became a global pandemic.
Wang is under pressure from China to maintain close relations with Italy, with whom he established diplomatic relations 50 years ago.
Ministers were going to lunch after their statements to the press.
The main element in the timeline of the diplomat visiting Europe pushes Europeans to ensure access to the market of telecom giant Huawei, as well as broader efforts to keep European countries in Hong Kong quiet and take on Beijing’s look in its tariff war. with Washington.
Prior to the meeting, prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law delivered a letter to the Foreign Ministry asking Di Maio to deal with “Hong Kong’s unrest and human rights violations” during the meeting.
China’s controversial national security law for Hong Kong is seen through many as Beijing’s boldest resolution to date on the legal firewall between Hong Kong’s semi-autonomous territory and the authoritarian formula of the continental Communist Party.
“We will have to paint in combination to form a strong alliance to counter the authoritarian nature of China,” Law said.
Last year, Italy was the first primary democracy to signal an agreement in favor of the Chinese “Belt and Road” initiative. The program includes primary infrastructure investments to create a channel for Chinese industry and the structure industry. European partners in the United States and Italy see this as a risk, as China seeks to assign its power.
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This edition corrected the full call of Chinese Chancellor in Wang Yi and Wang Li.
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