Alberto Fernández will travel to China to participate in the III Belt and Road Forum

President Alberto Fernández will embark on Thursday his last international tour of Shanghai and Beijing, in China, where he will try to close a new agreement for the swap to feed the reserves of the BCRA and will participate in the III Forum of the Belt and Road for International Cooperation. Cecilia Todesca Bocco; the head of the Central Bank Miguel Pesce, and the secretary general of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello, as confirmed so far, although other officials could join. The president will arrive in Shanghai on Saturday, to meet there with Rousseff and carry out other activities, while on Tuesday 17 in the morning he will travel to the capital of China to attend the summit of leaders that will last until the next day, according to the same sources. Argentina, along with Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will join the group of countries that make up 36 percent of the world’s GDP and 46 percent of the planet’s population as of January 1, 2024. III Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation: Together for Common Development and Prosperity
The summit will deliberate on issues such as “Connectivity in an Open Global Economy”, “Green Silk Road for Harmony with Nature” and “Digital Economy as a New Source of Growth”. It is estimated that the forum will be attended by different heads of state and authorities from more than 110 countries. The Belt and Road has two main axes: first, a land route linking China with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Europe through the Balkans until reaching Paris, something for which China used existing railway facilities, while investing in the construction of new ones. Secondly, the expansion of a maritime route to reach Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, which implies the installation of commercial ports and military bases in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and which has revived old rivalries between some Asian countries.

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