Wang Yi, head of diplomacy of the Communist Party of China, will visit Italy to try to smooth Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s edges and renew the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2019. The relationship between Beijing and Rome has in fact taken somewhat of a sudden turn with the election of far-right leader Giorgia Meloni as Italian Prime Minister in September 2022. A few days after her victory, Meloni called the MoU signed by China and Italy on the Belt and Road Initiative four years ago “a big mistake”.