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Six years after President Xi Jinping outlined the idea of the Silk Road economic belt during his visit to the University of Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, followed a month later by the announcement of the construction of the twenty-first century maritime Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative has become the mainstay of Chinese policy in affirming a new way of conceiving international relations. This initiative was aimed at restructuring a geo-political area made up of more than 65 countries and sees the Mediterranean as the natural terminal of a series of port infrastructures which characterise the maritime Silk Road. Due to its geographical position, ports and its infrastructure connections with central and eastern Europe, Italy, the first G7 nation to have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation within the BRI framework, can play a key role in this initiative.
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Bressan, M. (2020). The Impact of the New Silk Road on the Mediterranean and on Italy. In: Pechlaner, H., Erschbamer, G., Thees, H., Gruber, M. (eds) China and the New Silk Road. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43399-4_9
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