The Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Piero Fassino, has summoned the Chinese ambassador. "China must explain this surveillance operation against Italy. This would raise a democratic issue that cannot be ignored."

Iolanda Di Stasio is very close to Pietro Dettori, a partner at Rousseau, through personal trust and political affinity. For the Five Star Movement, their foreign affairs are all about personal connections

Erdogan dreams of a Turkish empire stretching from the Adriatic to China. Gürsel, Cagaptay and Goldman say: “He wants an Ottoman revival”