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Italy pulls out of China's BRI days after PM Meloni's meeting with 'friend' Modi at COP 28 in Dubai
Italy withdrew from Xi Jinping’s ‘ambitious’ Belt and Road initiative in a major jolt to' expansionist' China. Italy, the only G7 nation to be part of BRI, quit the economic corridor, dismissing fears of damaging the Italian economy, said govt sources...
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India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor rattles China, says don't make it a 'geopolitical tool'
China said on Monday that it welcomes the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor announced on the sidelines of the G20 summit so long it doesn't become a "geopolitical tool", even as it downplayed Italy's plan to pull out of its Belt and Road Initi...
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IMEC announcement at G20 Explained: Why it is crucial but not a challenge to China’s BRI
At the New Delhi G20 Summit, PM Modi announced a mega infra-economic corridor project, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. The project has the US, India, Saudi Arabia, UAE and European Union as partners. Indrani Bagchi, CEO of Ananta Aspen Centre exp...