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cross_type 2.00 — strongly supporting 3 facts
The European Union and the Belt and Road Initiative are related because Italy's independent participation in the initiative challenged the European Union's goal of a unified negotiation strategy [1], [2], and the European Union has developed a connectivity strategy specifically to counter the dependencies created by the Belt and Road Initiative [3].
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Strategic Rivalry between United States and China swp-berlin.org 3 facts
claimBy signing the Belt and Road Initiative independently, Italy subverted the desire of other European Union member states to negotiate participation in the initiative as a unified European bloc.
perspectiveThe European Union's connectivity strategy serves as a counter-approach to the one-sided dependencies that many Asian and African nations fear from China's Belt and Road Initiative.
claimItaly's decision to sign on to the Belt and Road Initiative subverted the desire of other European Union member states to conduct talks about participating in the initiative only as a unified European bloc.