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Italy’s Meloni, on the 700th Anniversary of Marco Polo’s Death, Seeks To Reshape Sino-Italian Relations

Where Paris, Berlin, Brussels, and Washington have flailed, could Rome be poised to succeed?

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Marco Polo's caravan traveling to India, as depicted in the 14th-century Catalan Atlas. Via Wikimedia Commons
ROSARIO IACONIS
ROSARIO IACONIS

On the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death, Prime Minister Meloni journeyed to Beijing to reconfigure Italy’s relationship with the Middle Kingdom — a diplomatic pivot designed to tame the Communist Chinese tiger.

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ROSARIO IACONIS
ROSARIO IACONIS

Rosario A. Iaconis is an author and educator who embraces Giuseppe Verdi’s dictum: “You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” He serves as Chairman of the Italic Institute of America.

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