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Preface
Last week, the mainland announced that the foreign ministers of Argentina, Peru and Bolivia would visit the mainland this week.
The arrival of these delegations does not give the impression that relations between South America and China have improved.
After all, in recent years, due to the United States, these three South American countries have basically stood on the opposite side of China, especially Argentina.
You must know that Argentina has always been relatively close to the United States, but now it is visiting China so openly, isn't this undoubtedly a slap in the face to the United States?
Over the years, the United States has always tried its best to suppress the mainland's economy and science and technology, but Argentina's choice to visit China at this time is not a stab in the face?
This makes one wonder what is happening in Argentina and how attitudes have changed so much.
Milley becomes president of Argentina
It was quite surprising to learn that Argentina would send their foreign minister, Ms. Mundino, and a national delegation to visit China from April 28 to May 1.
After all, after Milley became president of Argentina last year, he directly changed many of their domestic policies, even foreign policy.
Source: Luzhong Morning Post, April 28, 2024 - China announced: Foreign Ministers of the three countries, confirm their visit to China!
It also shows that it does not want to have friendly diplomacy with China.
You must know that Argentina officially joined the Belt and Road Initiative under the leadership of the previous president, and it can be said that it almost became a member of the BRICS.
But he never thought that after Milley came to power, he diplomatically directly refused to implement the plan to join the BRICS.
It may not be possible to say that Argentina is reluctant to join the BRICS because China is in the BRICS ranks.
However, on the issue of the procurement of fighter jets, it can be seen that Milley really does not want Argentina to get along with China.
For a long time, Argentina's fighter jets have been purchased from Chinese fighters codenamed Thunder, but Milley would rather buy other people's old fighters than choose Chinese fighters.
I have to say that Milley's various behaviors seem to be deliberately alienating China, but he always makes a lot of extremely pro-American behavior.
However, in the eyes of many experts, this is actually inevitable.
After all, as early as the campaign of Milley, he had a pro-American posture.
After taking office, Milley hoped that with the help of the United States, Argentina would become a member of NATO's global partnership, so that it could rely on or be close to the United States in all aspects.
Even in order to express his heart to the United States, Milley even wanted to exchange his country's currency, the Argentine peso, for dollars.
However, Milley wants to curry favor with the United States in such a difficult way, and he also has his own wishful thinking.
After all, Argentina, located in South America, is basically the backyard of the United States, so I want the United States to help them more.
But in the process of continuous contact, Milley gradually realized that the United States has always been relatively conservative, both economically and technologically.
In other words, no matter how much Argentina tries to curry favor with them, the United States will never do everything to help them.
Therefore, Argentina has always insisted on recovering their Malvinas Islands, no matter what time it was.
It can be seen that Argentina is still very nationalistic, and does not hesitate to sell its country in order to achieve its goals.
After a series of pro-American maneuvers, Argentina finally realized that the United States would not help their economy, and they still had to rely on themselves.
After all, Argentina is still facing huge foreign debt pressure, so it is urgent for them to develop their own economy.
For this reason, they have set their sights on China, which has a huge market, and they cannot find a country in the world that is more suitable for economic development than China.
Therefore, even Milley may have big differences with the Chinese side in some ideologies.
However, from the team visiting China this time, it can be seen that he still attaches great importance to this trip to China.
Among them, it was sent by Argentina, and Montino had already met with the Chinese foreign minister on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in February.
At that meeting, they had an in-depth discussion on this aspect of the relationship and on the issue of the one-China policy.
In the course of the talks, mainland Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that the relationship between the two countries is very important at all times.
There is a very great potential for cooperation between the two countries, and if the two countries really cooperate in the future, it will definitely achieve a win-win situation.
For this reason, last week, the relevant departments of the mainland announced that this week, the Argentine foreign minister will visit China this week.
So does Argentina's high-profile visit to China mean that they have abandoned the dark and turned to the light?
The purpose of Argentina's visit to China
Since coming to power last year, Milley has been trying to curry favor with the United States in order to develop their country's economy.
But they never thought that the degree of conservatism in the United States was beyond their imagination.
In the economic aspect, they finally chose China between China and the United States, which they saw as not only a huge market, but also the most suitable country to export their agricultural products.
It was finally decided to visit China at the end of April and early May.
Xinmin Evening News, April 29, 2024 -- Three Latin American foreign ministers visited China almost simultaneously!
You must know that in recent years, in order to suppress the development of the mainland's economy, the United States has been trying to obstruct the development of the mainland's industries.
Now, Argentina, which once tried to hug the thigh of the United States, wants to visit China for economic cooperation.
I have to say that Argentina is directly stabbing the United States in the back, and it is estimated that the United States has already been furious with Argentina's actions.
But the United States must be difficult to speak out, after all, Argentina has expressed the idea of economic cooperation to them, but they have always maintained a conservative posture, so that Argentina does not know how to speak.
It is precisely because of the attitude of the United States that it does not refuse or give, that Argentina, which owes foreign debts, will certainly not be able to wait.
Therefore, after some consideration, Argentina decided to cooperate with China in the economic field.
Source: Huanqiu.com, April 28, 2024 - The foreign ministers of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru visited China one after another
After all, China's economic development is visible and growing, and in many fields, China is overwhelmingly on the list.
More importantly, China is still very contractual, and cooperating with China can really make them put their hearts in their stomachs.
China has always pursued the concept of peaceful development and common development, and it really does not make people feel too secure.
Argentina's cooperation with China will not only change the economic situation of their country, but also further ease the relationship between South American countries and China.
epilogue
In the process of being pro-American, Argentina found that the United States had always been wary of them, and had always taken a conservative attitude towards them in the economic aspect, which made Argentina, which was heavily indebted, have no choice but to think of other ways.
In the end, Argentina chose to visit China to conduct detailed negotiations on economic cooperation between the two sides, and if the two countries cooperate, it will definitely be a win-win situation.