496:, albeit without recognition from Beijing." Mizzan found himself in the lead of the diplomatic relations between Italy and China after the Italian ambassador fled to Italy in 1950. He and the other functionaries weren't recognized and weren't given privileged status by the Chinese authorities, who considered them simply foreign citizens, if not "spies from hostile foreign governments". Neither the functionaries nor their belongings nor the embassy buildings were given the privileged status normally acknowledged to diplomats. After the outbreak of the war in Korea, tension arose. His position and the other diplomats' became uncomfortable, and the Italian state, after Mizzan's advice and the following consultation of former Italian ambassadors and scholars, decided to proceed with the burning of the archives containing political correspondence in
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February 1950, it emerged that the United Kingdom, and later the Netherlands, didn't gain much from recognizing China, and the United States, after initially showing support, advised Italy that recognizing China wasn't a good idea, Italy chose to avoid recognition, and finally proceeded with the
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January 1950 Mizzan wrote a laconic message in English, entrusting it to the British, since they were the only ones to have a radio to communicate out of China. In February 1951 he reported from Nanjing that in the absence of formal Italian recognition of Communist China, his permanence in
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closure of the office. Mizzan barely managed to obtain a visa out of China, while Italy telegraphed that the archives should be sent to
Shanghai, when possible, or otherwise burned. In December 1951 he finally reached Hong Kong. With the recalling of Mizzan, Italy's
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