(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 24 - "China attaches great importance to the development of relations with Italy and wishes to collaborate with the Italian side to maintain together the correct direction of development of the Sino-Italian global strategic partnership, to persist in mutual respect, to safeguard bilateral friendship and to deepen mutually beneficial eco-operations in the various sectors.
We hope that the Italian friends will continue to play a positive role in promoting Sino-Italian relations ".
Thus the spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Italy after Giorgia Meloni's interview with Cna, the Taiwanese agency.
"It doesn't matter - says the Beijing embassy in Rome - as the international situation changes, an open and mutually beneficial cooperation should forever be the main current in the development of China-Italy relations".
(HANDLE).
