Mrs. Kirchner to Beijing to mend trade relations with China
Argentine president Cristina Kirchner will be signing 10 billion US dollars in trade agreements with China during her official visit to the Asian giant scheduled to begin next July 13, according to Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman.
“It will be an extraordinary trip, and the President will be signing trade agreements for over 10 billion US dollars”, underlined Timerman, who did not disclose details of the operations.
According to Timerman the visit will boost relations between “two very important partners, not only commercially but also in political affairs, since both countries are members of the G-20 and we share many issues in international forums”.
Mrs. Cristina Kirchner is also scheduled to hold a meeting with her Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao.
The original trip scheduled for last January was cancelled at last moment by the Argentine president following a political dispute with the opposition over the use of the country’s Central Bank reserves to pay for sovereign debts.
China and Brazil are Argentina’s main trade partners but bilateral trade relation with Beijing are not going through one of its best moments since Buenos Aires imposed some protectionist measures (deferred import licences) in 2009 in support of domestic production which had a negative impact on Chinese imports.
As a consequence China decided to increase sanitary requirements for Argentine soy-oil, thus drastically cutting into trade volumes.
The trade balance shows that Argentina sells to China mostly food commodities and farm machinery and equipment. In the opposite direction China ships mostly industrialized goods (98%) preferably textiles, plastic, industrial input, foot wear and light machinery.
China absorbs 70% of Argentine soy-oil (world’s leading exporter) and in 2009 imported the equivalent of four million tons.
However since the trade spat, China has ceased all purchases of soy-oil.
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as a matter of fact, soyoil, meal and biodiesel are the main subproducts of soya. And Argentina has the world´s biggest hub in Rosario area for the industrial processing of the two former and a growing industry on the latter.
China´s new strategy is to replace oil-by-beans, and they have built facilities in Dailan for that attempt.
Perhaps, Cristina should have learnt more about Argentina´s few strengths before weakening them.
In my personal vision of near future, we are going to miss yankee “backyard approach”!!!!... when the chinese start to “rule the waves” in South America. Not an american dream.
pd: Brits are the past, some kind of old fashioned mix of (sportmen + pirates) that lost the battle for investing in Argentina after WW1 and were definitely trashed out from the world by the americans after WW2. Today, just an appendix of the american empire.
[or you will be if you sign anything] when are you ever going to learn,
you dont need china, if you want something done, then do it yourself,
We... We...We...We...We...
That makes 5 We's in your short entry.
Its nice seeing an Argentinean finally taking responsibility..... but.........
With all the bad things you have done against our Country; You should be in jail mate!
But not all is negative... ohhhh no........
I want to compliment you for your English...
How is your Spanish, by the way?
Lot of prejudices and intolerance.
As JHernández said:
“os irmaos sean...o....los de fora”.
Now, on this thread, so far, he has been borderline but I can tell that he is beginning to foam at the mouth. This is usually followed by wild, illiterate, ignorant, implausible, unintelligible comments and assertions that blame everyone else, no matter who, for the conspiracy against him and his country. Is this paranoia? Anxiety? Sexual repression? Schizophrenia? Who knows? He should be humoured. ................. No, the hell with it, it's so funny when he loses it.
I do hope the Botox Queen has researched the niceties of etiquette and courtesy in China. It is very important when meeting someone, that one bows low. And waits until one has been properly shafted before standing up again.
What when you use your brain gassy?
no you should try it, doesnt hurt as much as you not having the Falklands
Think: Thanks for correcting me. You’re right, too many “we”. My English is
not so good as you seem to think. Next time I’ll try to improve it. I couldn’t avoid noticing your heavy touch of sarcasm in your comment, but it didn’reach me. I must assume that you are smart enough to understand what I had meant in my comment. If you don’t, I would gladly translate for you: Those who brainwashed the people of our country for so long and destroyed de educational system were the populist parties. And the military, well, they had contributed too. By the way, my Spanish is better than my English.
I believe you're getting your nation mixed up with our one.
wrong, wrong..wrong.
I'm a troll, aren't you banned from wikipedia for trolling? not a nation? we've been a nation longer than most. Were a small one, yes. I don't see how that factors into anything, our old empire proves that “size doesn't matter”.
You threaten to invade a peacfull island, then in the very next sentance claim to be civilized?
First of all, the sub around the area is not one with nukes. it has a nuklear reactor poweing it. it's just a normal attack sub. Second you couldn't invade the islands, like YOU have said in the past.
“I guess katraskin is part of the military junta that destroyed education and killed civilians…”
Vargas: You are trying to be kind of smart arse. If you want to exchange ideas, assuming you have any, go ahead, but don’t insult me! Maybe Pheel is right. What’s your favourite TV show 6,7,8 ?
No thanks gassy dont want to look like a shaved chimp
You seem to be remarkably well informed on all aspects of homosexuality,any little hidden secrets my one man argie special needs soldier
Like i've said. A nuclear warhead would not reach the UK from argentina. This is why we keep ours on subs, they have basicly unlimited range.
“Argentina is a big place to cover MAD bring it on”
We have around 350 nukes. I think we would have enough if we wanted to. But we wouldn't.
I don't watch tv it makes people become stupid.
well somethings to blame
You are going to show the world how irrational we are, but nuking us while we aren't even at war?
...lol.
“again what with brits, racism and homosexuality, this freaks really are perverted, disgusting”.....“If that is what you guys are willing to do for 2000 ilegal alliens bring it on, we are ready to show the rest of the world how irrational brits can be”
Regarding homosexuality your country is full of it. Including Maradona, in 1992 was found in bed w/male- friend and drugged. I guess that you referred to the Falklanders when in your madness you wrote: “2000 ilegal alliens”. In the first place they're 3000 and growing, no argentineans please, they're derange.
Gassy is really working up a good one, isn't he? Let's keep it going until he tries rubbing one of his brain cells against the other and causes a short.
Now, gassy. You know that nothing really hurts Brits. Most of the nations in the world have learned this over time. Take your case. It took 34 British aircraft to defeat your air force. 1 submarine to sink one unit of your navy and send the rest running for port and around 7% of our army to defeat yours. Sort of a no-brainer, isn't it? If you've kept up with the comments all around, I think the scoreline has become:
1 Brit = 20 Argentines.
But it's unlikely anyone would tell you because of your clear hate for anything you don't personally believe in.
One thing i noticed was back in school. all of the kids who used to tease other kids for being gay and generally being way over homophobic, turned out to be gay themselves by the time they left college.
Something to think about.
so by your own words , to nuke the brits, argentina would be no more,
so do you best, you vever know you might meat all them vergins up their in cucko land,
As we all know, fish is of paramount importance for the Islands economy.
This new discovery could be a “potent boost” for Malvinas products!
en.mercopress.com/2010/07/08/falklands-fisheries-scientists-discover-mating-habits-of-deep-sea-squid
In N Korea 1 in every 25 people are in the military, with around 1.6 million troops. It's a very dangerous state and is likely going to be the site for the next big war.
Your view of nukes is intresting. You do realise after building these nukes they are just going to sit in a silo doing nothing?
Out of the 30,000 nuclear warheads in the world only two have been used in a wartime enviroment(many more in testing).
We had nukes in 1982. Did it stop you from invadind the falklands? no. They are quite useless in reality.
then like the rest of the world, you argentina will be left with getting rid of them, and all the radiation that goes with them, the west has all these in isolation, would you like them ,
even if he was only the REF, lol
Falklands Oil and Gas Shares Down nearly 50% Today
I love Mondays!!!
www.stockopedia.co.uk/content/falkland-oil-and-gas-disappointed-by-dry-well-at-toroa-prospect-44627/
You can't go putting Argentina, public officials and moral obligation in the same sentence. Actually, I'm not sure it's possible to have a moral obligation to a state. To have a moral obligation to people, that's OK.
Well lads.......
The moment finally arrived...
My account has been “Regulated” (Closed:-)
Too much “Foul language I suppose???
After too many years with censorship in Argentina I don’t “think” it’s funny so..... ....
Let’s see if they delete this farewell!
(Sending this from a new account just to say good bye to the “intelligent ones”)
Take care
You wont.
Don't be silly, the UK has no interest in Argentina, the pretext that the UK would even contemplate an invasion in the 21st Century; ie don't indulge irrational paranoia.
The Falklands were never Argentine.
no my friends you keep it,
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