I believe China has surprisingly close ties with Italy.
Why Is Italy’s Government Considered Pro-China?
https://www.china-briefing.com/news/italy-government-china-belt-and-road/
Italy is run by chink puppets— like the democrat and GOPe parties.
Indeed. Lot of Chinese investment in northern Italy. In fact they had direct flights from Wuhan to Italy which is why Italy was decimated by the Wuhan plague.