Two days ago, Argentine President Milley, who took office, completed the swearing-in and officially began to implement his own governing policy. It's just that the ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny. Milley was indeed carrying out the "bold words" he said during the election campaign, but he was deflated diplomatically, and went to the United States, but he ran into a gray nose, and after he came back, Milley's attitude changed 180 degrees, and he even wrote a letter to China for help.
Of course, whether to say it or not, Milley really did what he said, and as soon as he took office, he really cut off half of the government departments. There were 21 government departments in Argentina, but now there are only nine left. The Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Culture have all closed their doors.
Originally, Milley wanted to shut down the Ministry of Health as well, but the officials under him said that Milley finally dispelled this idea and kept the Ministry of Health. All in all, the current Argentine cabinet is in a meeting, and not a single table is satisfied.
In addition to the implementation of domestic policies, during the election campaign, he declared that he wanted to be extremely close to the dependence of the United States, and he also went to the United States non-stop, and in his personal capacity, hoping to win some favor from the United States in this private capacity, and it would be easier to talk about cooperation in the future.
But what's interesting is that Milley didn't even see Biden in person on this trip to the United States. The biggest U.S. official to receive Milley is probably Biden's security adviser Sullivan. However, the two sides only exchanged pleasantries, and the United States did not agree to Milley's proposal that the International Monetary Fund should assist Argentina.
Obviously, Milley was not in a good position, and he wanted to use his openly pro-American remarks during his election campaign to bring a wave of relations between the United States and Argentina closer and gain the trust and economic support of the United States. As a result, the United States did not give any face.
In the United States, after Milai returned to China, his attitude changed 180 degrees, and he immediately wrote a letter to China, hoping that China would allow the local currency swap between China and Argentina. Not only that, but Milley also wants to further expand the scale of the currency swap agreement with China from the previous Argentine government.
You must know that Milley's previous remarks were not very friendly to China, saying that he would stop cooperating with China, and even claimed that he would withdraw from the BRICS organization. But to put it bluntly, Millay can only talk about it, but the reality makes Millay have to bow his head.
Take the local currency swap as an example, before Argentina repaid the IMF International Monetary Fund loans, with a total of 3.4 billion US dollars with interest, Argentina certainly did not have so much money, and finally could only use the IMF's special drawing rights, diplomatic Chinese currency settlement, etc., to temporarily fill this hole.
Now that Milley has taken office, he could have gotten financial support from the United States, but judging from the attitude of the United States, Milley does not have much hope for the time being. Therefore, the exchange of Chinese and Argentine currencies has become a "life-saving straw" for Milley. After all, next year, there will be $90 billion and $25 billion in local and foreign currency debts, waiting for Milley to have a headache.
However, the attitude of the mainland foreign ministry is also very clear: at a regular press conference, when asked about Milley's letter to China to discuss the local currency swap agreement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning directly replied that he did not know about the matter and did not provide any information.
There is speculation that China has actually made a request for Milley to explain to China Argentina's current diplomatic attitude. Although there is no official confirmation in this regard, I think it is very possible, after all, there is no problem with asking China for help, but Milley's attitude must be correct, and he can't eat Chinese rice and smash Chinese pots.