History may record an event in Italy held yesterday as the premier event out of which a new human renaissance was born. Italy and China are involved in discussions about bringing the Great Belt and Road Initiative of infrastructure and high speed rail to Italy and thus to Europe. In Milan, Movisol, the LaRouche movement's association in Italy, and the regional government of Lombardia, sponsored a conference discussing the great strategic significance of the MOU to be signed between Italy and China on March 22nd. The conference featured the head of the Italian government’s Task Force China and Helga Zepp-LaRouche. In the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sara, former Italian Finance Minister Guilo Tremonti had described the Belt and Road as consistent with the grand vision for economic development proposed by Lyndon LaRouche.