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Article: Chinese immigrants flooding into Italy.
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- August 14, 2000
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ROME, Aug 12 (UPI)
The Italian government faced a growing public outcry Saturday following reports that perhaps as many as hundreds of thousands of illegal Chinese immigrants were flooding across the border from the former Yugoslavia.
"We are not on the verge of an invasion by Chinese immigrants," declared Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Umberto Ranieri. "There is no 'yellow peril' for Italy." Ranieri said "alarmism and speculation" were being fomented by the political opposition.
But the alarm was raised by Italian press reports that large numbers of Chinese had arrived in Serbia, many of them on direct scheduled flights to ...