ROME—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a warning to Italy over its economic relations with China on Sept. 30, and described Chinese mobile telecoms technology as a threat to Italy’s national security and the privacy of its citizens.
“The foreign minister and I had a long conversation about the United States’ concerns at the Chinese Communist Party trying to leverage its economic presence in Italy to serve its own strategic purposes,” Pompeo told a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio.
