Meloni in China: three-year plan on electric cars and renewables - Dossier: Chinese electric cars
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from Beijing announced the signing of an industrial cooperation memorandum
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Key points
- Meloni: we aim to close Italy's investment gap in China and fairer trade relations
- "Collaboration is constructive and transparent, also on IA"
- "Three-year plan with Beijing, new phase of cooperation"
- "We work with China, also useful at multilateral level"
- Li: between China and Italy spaces for links at new levels
- The other signatures between Rome and Beijing
- Masaf agreements
- Agreements on education, food safety and the environment
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"The Memorandum of Industrial Cooperation that we have signed is a significant step" that "now includes strategic industrial sectors such as electric mobility and renewables, sectors where, moreover, China has already been operating on the technological frontier for some time, which requires it to act as a fully developed economy, which it is, sharing the new frontiers of knowledge with its partners". This was announced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaking in Beijing at the Italy-China business forum, during which six agreements were signed in various fields, from industry to food safety to education
Meloni: let's aim to close the Italy-China investment gap and fairer trade relations
'Italian enterprise in China continues to play its part. I will not dwell on specific examples, but I would like to highlight a fact: Chinese investments in Italy are now about one third of Italian investments in China. It is a gap that I would like to see filled in the right way,' Meloni added in her speech at the Italy-China business forum organised on the occasion of her visit to Beijing. And she explained that the Italy-China business forum 'is a great opportunity' to 'strengthen our partnership by reasoning on strengths and weaknesses, on what has worked and what has not' and 'to do so with the common goal of making trade relations increasingly fair and advantageous for all'.
"Collaboration is constructive and transparent, also on IA"
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Not only. For the Prime Minister, 'it would be a very serious mistake to ignore the growing risks of polarisation and further verticalisation of wealth' linked to the development of artificial intelligence, 'not to mention those associated with the loss of human control over the decisions that machines will take, employed in the most diverse sectors, including the medical, or security, or even the military'. So 'meeting these challenges requires constructive and transparent collaboration. It is these elements, together with respect for the principles of reciprocity and a level playing field, that are the cornerstone of relations between nations'. In this regard, 'generative Artificial Intelligence is set to profoundly affect our social and economic fabric and radically change entire production segments. I know that even in China there is a lively debate going on about what have been called 'new productive forces', alluding, I guess, precisely to the impact that artificial intelligence can have on productivity, as well as, I would add, on job creation and destruction. Each of us is developing a different approach, but I believe that beyond the different sensitivities, it is fundamental to develop a common reasoning, precisely in the light of the impact that AI will have on the world of work, even for those professions with a higher degree of specialisation'.
"Three-year plan with Beijing, new phase of cooperation"
."I am very happy to be here for this government's first official trip, which has been preceded by several high-level meetings," with the missions of several ministers, among others, as a "demonstration of the will to start a new phase, to relaunch our bilateral cooperation in the year in which the 20th anniversary of our global strategic partnership falls". These were the words of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the start of her bilateral meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang (at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing's Palace of Institutions), announcing the signing of "a three-year action plan to experiment new forms of cooperation".
