Despite the USA insisting they shouldn’t, perpetually broke with declining population Italy jumped on China’s One-Belt-One-Road program with a vengeance. My nephew’s father is Italian. Last name is Modarelli. He lamented in 2020 there were more people in the Italian phone directory with the last name, Chen than there were of his. So, yeah, China pretty much took over Italy. Roberto Rossellini‘s romantic depictions of a beautiful and romantic country are over.