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Montevideo, May 6th 2025 - 06:18 UTC

Tag: Xi Jinping

  • Tuesday, April 22nd 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Lula and Xi to meet again next month at Sino-Celac Summit

    Lula will be flying to China from Russia's May 9 WWII Victory Day celebrations

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be travelling to China next month for the Summit between the Asian country and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) between May 12 and 13, it was announced by the Planalto Palace. Lula's second official trip to China during his third term will follow his attendance at Russia's Victory Day celebrations on May 9, marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's triumph in World War II.

  • Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 09:48 UTC

    Lula avoids the dragon’s, Belt and Road Initiative and agrees with China’s Xi on a neutral ‘shared future’

    Lula da Silva meets with Xi Jinping during the G20 meeting in Rio

    President-elect Donald Trump’s impressive victory has had an impact worldwide given his promises, many of them with a strong dye of populism and protectionism, Making America Great Again.

  • Monday, November 18th 2024 - 09:59 UTC

    China's Xi Jinping all for deeper relations with Chile

    Beijing and Santiago will celebrate 55 years of diplomatic ties next year

    Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Chilean counterpart Gabriel Boric Font in Lima on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in the Peruvian capital that he hoped to expand cooperation between both countries with free trade and open industrial policies. The Asian leader also highlighted that Chile was the first South American country to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:03 UTC

    Boluarte and Xi Jinping inaugurate Chancay megaport in Peru

    Chancay “is the first smart and green port in South America,” Xi Jinping highlighted

    Presidents Dina Boluarte of Peru and Xi Jinping of China inaugurated Thursday the mega-port of Chancay, some 40 miles north of Lima. The structure, built with financing from the Asian country, is expected to revolutionize South America's Pacific Ocean trade. The opening took place within the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

  • Saturday, June 8th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

    Alckmin underlines China's importance for Brazil

    The Chinese still do not drink too much coffee, Alckmin noted

    In an interview with Brazilian reporters during his Chinese trip, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin underlined the importance of the China-Brazil High-Level Coordination and Cooperation Committee (COSBAN).

  • Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Taiwan's unknowable future and president for life Xi Jinping rage

    If there were a referendum in Taiwan today on declaring independence from China (and Beijing didn’t threaten to invade to stop it), a large majority of Taiwanese would vote yes

    By Gwynne Dyer

    Taiwan’s fate is as unknowable as usual, even though we know who the next president is, William Lai, vice-president under outgoing President Tsai Ing-Wen, mainly because the two opposition parties failed to agree on a joint candidate and ultimately split the slightly-less-anti-China vote between them.

  • Thursday, November 30th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

    Henry Kissinger dies aged 100

    In July this year, Kissinger made a surprise visit to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping

    Former US Secretary of State and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger died Wednesday at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut, it was reported. He epitomized his country's foreign policy in the second half of the 20th century and remained active throughout his life. In July this year, he made a surprise visit to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.

  • Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 08:31 UTC

    Uruguay, China deepen bilateral ties

    Xi and Lacalle met for over two hours in Beijing

    President Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay and Xi Jinping of China Wednesday announced after meeting in Beijing that new steps toward a bilateral free trade deal had been agreed upon.

  • Saturday, November 18th 2023 - 10:42 UTC

    Linking the gov't to drug trafficking is serious, Lacalle warns

    Lacalle is off to China for a meeting with Xi Jinping in an attempt to finalize a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, among other issues

    On his last full day in the country before leaving for China, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou criticized opposition leaders for suggesting he was involved in drug trafficking, which the Marset scandal that led to the resignation of several ministers earlier this month would allegedly prove.

  • Thursday, November 16th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    Biden, Xi resume direct talks after over a year of top-level silence

    Both leaders had a “candid” conversation where no major breakthroughs were expected

    After going no contact for over a year, Presidents Joseph Biden of the United States and Xi Jinping of China met Wednesday in San Francisco on the sides of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit.

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