US President Joe Biden hosts Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House on Thursday, with the Ukraine war and Italy's relations with China expected to be among the top items on the agenda
Italy's first woman prime minister came to power last October and is seeking an assertive role abroad as she plans the country's upcoming Italian presidency of the Group of 7 nations in 2024.
She and her right-wing coalition have staked out positions on abortion and LGBTQ rights sharply at odds with those of Biden, a Democrat who used last year's Italian election results as an occasion to warn fellow liberals about the dangers facing the world's democracies. Meloni is also expected on Thursday to meet with Republican House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has said he could considerA White House spokesperson said on Wednesday that Biden "has a good relationship" with Meloni and both sides emphasized the trip was an opportunity to reaffirm a strong partnership between the countries, includingthe West has provided Ukraine in its grinding war against Russia since 2022.
Meloni's first trip to Washington comes as she faces a decision over whether to maintain Italy's membership in Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure plan, a program thatItaly in 2019 became the first and so far only G7 nation to join the Chinese infrastructure initiative, with critics saying the partnership would enable China to gain control of sensitive technologies and vital infrastructure.
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