China’s Xi and Italy’s Meloni Walk in Beijing Traditional Gardens

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni offered to broker better trade relations between China and the European Union, calling on President Xi Jinping to “balance out” commercial relations between the bloc and the world’s second-biggest economy. “Italy can have an important role in EU relations and creating balanced relations,” Meloni said Monday in her first official visit to China since coming to power in 2022. “We need a rules-based order” as a way “to guarantee stability, peace, trade that remains free,” she said. Read more: -------- Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Subscribe to Bloomberg Originals: Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. Connect with us on… YouTube: Breaking News on YouTube: @BloombergQuicktakeNow