It will be an important trip, perhaps the most important from a geopolitical and commercial point of view. President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella will be in China in the aftermath of the U.S. elections to strengthen the strategic relaunch of the partnership following the halt of the "Silk Road" agreements. The Head of State will meet - on the 8th - with both Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. Accompanying Mattarella is Foreign Minister Tajani. Intense discussions will also be held on the ongoing wars in the Middle East and Russia. Xi's support for Putin is well known, and on the Italian side the role of mediation that Beijing can exercise to reach an end to the conflict, a "just peace", as Mattarella has repeatedly called it, is considered fundamental. It is then known that the Head of State is pushing to strengthen a multilateral approach and therefore will want to deepen the Chinese vision of how a new world order can be rebuilt that is no longer dominated by the Western oligopoly but goes through a stronger involvement of that galaxy of countries renamed the "global south". Trade interchanges will also be in the foreground: estimates for 2023 put Chinese exports at around 50 billion euros while Italian exports stop at 19 billion euros. The thorns, in short, are different but this third Chinese mission of Mattarella, as they tell at the Quirinale, was strongly desired by the Beijing authorities also in light of the relations built between the Head of State and Xi.