Bulletins and News Discussion for December 11th to December 17th, 2023 - What's Yours is Mine - COTW: Canada

milei gives up after two days and sends a letter to Xi asking him to intervene directly in the currency swap that was signed mere months ago. The same milei who said that "he won't deal with Communists".

In an attempt to quickly rebuild ties with the Asian giant and obtain the US$5 billion renewal of the current currency swap with China, President Javier Milei sent a letter hours ago to Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which he requests his support to accelerate the process and obtain the funds to face urgent expirations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Before and after that meeting, in which Foreign Minister Diana Mondino participated, the short circuits that still separate China from the Milei government became clear, whose statements regarding “not having ties with communist countries” made during the electoral campaign, upset the Chinese government.

Milei's urgency to rebuild ties with China was reflected during the meeting, in which, as LA NACION learned, the President showed himself willing to have a phone call with the Chinese president. Previous loans, such as those obtained by President Alberto Fernández with Sergio Massa as Minister of Economy, were unblocked after direct communication with the Chinese president. The delegation of that country left the President an invitation to visit the Asian giant as soon as possible.

Among the demands that the Chinese delegation brought to Buenos Aires is to replace, or at least announce, the successor of Sabino Vaca Narvaja at the head of the embassy, ​​taking into account that other destinations have already been announced or confirmed, such as the United States (Gerardo Werthein), Brazil (Daniel Scioli will continue) and Israel (they will appoint Milei's rabbi and spiritual guide, Axel Wahnish). Currently, and after the resignation of Vaca Narvaja, Marcela Barone, a diplomat with the rank of secretary, was in charge of the embassy, ​​in one of her first diplomatic assignments. Mondino's announcements to “transparent” the agreements with China also caused discomfort, in reference to the currency swap and other economic agreements for current public and private works.

Unlike the Milei government, Alberto Fernández received the delegation led by Wu Weihua on Saturday at 11 in the morning at the Casa Rosada in a meeting in which Vaca Narvaja participated on his last day as ambassador, the then foreign minister Santiago Cafiero and the general secretary of the outgoing Presidency, Julio Vitobello. Sources from the previous administration affirm that the sending of a “high-ranking” diplomat could help unblock the link and complement the letter sent by the President.

On the other hand, and with his now classic leather jacket and boots, President Milei arrived minutes before 8 at the Casa Rosada. On his second business day as President, the president led a cabinet meeting held for the imminent economic measures that will be announced today afternoon, and special presences. The former head of the Central Bank Federico Sturzenegger, a supporter of economic “shock” policies, participated in the meeting, along with the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, the head of the Central Bank, Santiago Bausili, and the other ministers. Caputo and Bausili, as it turned out, seek to accelerate verbal and factual reconciliation with China, and asked the Foreign Ministry for clear and forceful gestures in that regard.

The former Minister of Justice and proposed as the next Treasury Attorney, Rodolfo Barra, was also seen entering the Casa Rosada, questioned for his participation in the Tacuara philonazi group in the sixties.

Original article in spanish

Turns out being in power makes you a pragmatic eh?

Another massive win for XI JINPING THOUGHT.