Alberto Fernández left for China on his last major trip as president

Before leaving for China on his last important trip as president of the Argentine Republic, Alberto Fernández pointed out the relevance of the relationship with the Asian giant and highlighted the help received by the government of Xi Jinping. We are very convinced that the link with China is very important. It is a very large country, which objectively leads international trade, and that has really behaved very well with Argentina, mainly in the years of my Government, “said the president in an interview with Xinhua at Casa Rosada.Then, he referred to the agreement closed in February 2022, in which Fernández added the country to Xi’s initiative of the Belt and Road, “When we signed our entry into the Belt and Road, we did so precisely with the idea of reaching a deeper, more strategic agreement with China. And I’m looking forward to seeing how we move forward in that direction with the rest of the members, of all the countries that have signed the Belt and Road Agreement.” In all this time, where China did many things for Argentina, it also helped us with vaccines at a very difficult time,” the president added, stressing that the aid received was always “unconditional.” Along these lines, Fernández remarked that “the West does not work like that, because the West, whenever it gives something, it is in exchange for something.” That a country as powerful as China prevails by leading the idea of multilateralism, to developing countries fills us with hope and expectations, “he said, and emphasized then the modification that China’s global leadership entails. “Hegemonism in the world is over, there is no one who has the dominion of the world. It’s time for multilateralism and all those ideas,” he said.

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