U.S. Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar (Republican Party) charged on February 28 that the Government of Argentina is considering manufacturing Chinese fighter jets. In this regard, he warned that this can have “consequences of biblical proportions.”
“If they decide to build a factory of Chinese warfighters, it’s a very bad idea for them, and for everything that has to do with the relationship with the United States,” the congresswoman said at a hearing of the House Foreign Relations Committee.
“Its president (referring to Vice President Cristina Kirchner) and its president (Alberto Fernández) are making a pact with the devil that can have consequences of biblical proportions,” he added.
“The U.S. is not going to sit idly by, because you can’t have an ally that manufactures and exports Chinese military aircraft and sells them to neighbors,” he added.
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In that line, he emphasized “there are two worlds, the free world and the world of slaves, I hope that Argentines stay in the free world.”
According to Infobae, Argentina included in its 2022 budget an item of USD 664 million to acquire 12 JF-17 Thunder-Block III supersonic aircraft, of Chinese origin. However, the purchase did not materialize. In this regard, President Alberto Fernández pointed out that “he has to allocate his resources to more important things than the purchase of military aircraft today.”
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