Italy can only be blamed for not restricting travel from China quickly enough. It did not, however, start there.
blinded, poked, plucked and jabbed:
20 Nov: Hong Kong: ‘Five Eyes could be blinded,’ China warns West
China has strongly rebuked the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada after being accused of a concerted effort to silence critics in Hong Kong.
The countries, which form the Five Eyes alliance, criticised China’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong.
They urged Beijing to reverse course.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman responded that if countries “dared harm China’s sovereignty, they should beware that their eyes could be blinded”.
“The Chinese never stir trouble , but they aren’t afraid of trouble either,” Zhao Lijian told journalists in Beijing on Thursday, saying it did not “matter if they had five or 10 eyes”...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54995227
20 Nov: Sydney Morning Herald: China threatens to ‘poke the eyes’ of Five Eyes nations over HK
By Eryk Bagshaw
While Australia has been singled out for economic punishment this year over its calls for a coronavirus inquiry, India, Japan and Europe are now running their China policies through multilateral forums.
The inflammatory remarks from the foreign ministry came hours after China’s President Xi Jinping called for global co-operation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit...
The comments follow months of heightened tensions with Canberra, which culminated in the Chinese embassy issuing a list of 14 grievances with the Morrison (Australian) government through the media while explicitly demanding Australia change course on its national security, foreign investment and human rights positions...
“China is angry. If you make China the enemy, China will be the enemy,” a Chinese embassy official said in a briefing in Canberra on Tuesday...
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/china-threatens-to-poke-the-eyes-of-five-eyes-nations-over-hk-20201120-p56gep.html
19 Nov: UK Sun: WHAT THE PLUCK China warns UK and US ‘eyes will be plucked out’ after demanding end to Hong Kong crackdown
by Chris Bradford
“No matter [if] they have five eyes or 10 eyes, as long as they dare to harm China’s sovereignty, security and development interests, [they should be] careful not to get their eyes jabbed and blinded.”...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13242109/china-warns-uk-allies-eyes-jabbed-hong-kong/