China has gained international prestige because of its relations with the Vatican. The Holy See should now seek to obtain more concrete results from its deal with Beijing.

Despite Rome's scepticism, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said cooperation with Italy under the Beijing-led Belt and Road initiative had been fruitful, with high-quality Italian products having ...

Third-century China got around the ancient world. They even made it to the Roman Empire, and wrote down their thoughts on these strange foreigners in the Weilüe, a third-century C.E. account of ...

As a far more significant sign of the decline of Western influence, the Vatican raised China from a missionary field, wholly dependent upon Rome, to metropolitan status much like that of the U.S ...

Russia has also asked China for economic support, according a US official familiar with the matter. That request and the one for military support came after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had ...

Going forward, Washington and Rome should look for opportunities to show Brussels that it is possible to reach a real European consensus for dealing with China. One such opportunity will arrive ...

ROME, July 19 (Reuters) - Italian state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and China's State Grid Corp are poised to renew their agreement on corporate governance of their co-owned Italian ...