Tag: Xi Jinping

• Thursday, July 24th 2014 - 06:42 UTC

  Xi's Latam visit ends in Cuba where China consolidated trade and financial relations

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping ended on Wednesday an eight-day trip through Latin America with a visit to eastern Cuba, where both the island's independence struggle against Spain and Fidel Castro's revolution began.

• Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 - 06:39 UTC

  China/Argentina swap disagreements to be addressed by courts in London and Paris

  

  Argentina's current confrontation in New York with Judge Thomas Griesa and the holdout speculative funds brings up the issue of having resigned the sovereignty of Argentine courts at the time of negotiating or restructuring foreign debt.

• Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 - 06:25 UTC

  Venezuela admits its ever growing dependency from China

  

  Venezuela confirmed Monday that its relations with China have become a fundamental pillar for making progress in almost all sectors of its economy. With a new portfolio of accords and almost 5.7 billion in loans, Beijing will provide support in many key areas.

• Monday, July 21st 2014 - 06:39 UTC

  “An intense week” of negotiations in a world that “becomes multi-polar again”

  

  President Cristina Fernández used her Twitter account on Sunday to comment on last week’s heavy agenda with the visit of Russia’s and China’s presidents and the BRICS-UNASUR summit in Brazil. “It has been an important week for Argentina,” she said.

• Monday, July 21st 2014 - 06:31 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: strong support from China in joint declaration with Argentina

  

  Daniel Filmus head of the Argentine Foreign ministry office on Issues related to the Question of Malvinas, underlined the support from China to Argentina' sovereignty claim over the disputed Islands, which was “clearly expressed” in a joint declaration signed by Presidents Cristina Fernandez and Xi Jinping, currently on a visit to several Latin American countries.

• Saturday, July 19th 2014 - 08:16 UTC

  China extends a 'financial' hand to dollar and credit strapped Argentina

  

  Argentina signed deals on Friday to borrow 7.5 billion dollars from China at a time when Buenos Aires cannot access global capital markets because of disputes over unpaid debt. Beijing also extended a three-year agreement for an 11bn swap operation between the central banks of Argentina and China.

• Saturday, July 19th 2014 - 07:36 UTC

  A money rich China and Brazil dispute influence in Latam

  

  After the BRICS summit and a visit to Brazil, China's President Xi Jinping is embarking on a tour of Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba in a bid to boost ties and gain clout in the region, as analyst Victor Mijares tells Deutch Welle.

• Saturday, July 19th 2014 - 06:41 UTC

  China confirms its interest in Brazil with credit and infrastructure projects

  

  China expanded its trade partnership with Brazil with 7.5 billion dollars in financing for Brazilian miner Vale, the purchase of 60 passenger jets from plane-maker Embraer and renewed commitment to invest in infrastructure.

• Friday, July 18th 2014 - 08:39 UTC

  China offers 35bn fund to finance infrastructure projects in Latin America

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed Thursday to create a 20 billion dollars fund to finance infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Wednesday, July 16th 2014 - 01:10 UTC

  BRICS sign deal to create development bank and an emergency reserve fund

  

  The leaders of the group of five BRICS emerging market countries signed on Tuesday a deal to create a new development bank and an emergency reserve fund, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff announced at a summit of the group in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza.