The recognized and ancient virtue of patience, which the Chinese government manages perhaps like no other when it comes to doing politics, prevented a direct manifestation of anger or alteration. But, in a way as indirect as it is conclusive, the government of Xi Jinping made known his Argentine counterpart, headed by Javier Mileyhis discomfort with the decision, expressed in an austere and diplomatic letter, not to join the BRICS, the giant of nations that Beijing integrates along with Brazil, India, South Africa and the Russia of Vladimir Putina unit to which the government of Alberto Fernandez had agreed to join starting today.
“Argentina’s plan not to join the BRICS reflects its uncertain foreign policy and makes its economic recovery more arduous,” is the title of an article published on Friday in the Global Times, a medium that usually reflects the position of the Chinese government. with the signature of Qian Jiayin, editorialist of that medium in its web version.
Without half measures, Jiayin states in the text that “experts believe that refusing to join the BRICS shows that Milei lacks strategic vision. For Argentina, joining multilateral platforms like the BRICS is exactly what it needs to achieve economic recovery. Now it seems that this opportunity is slipping through Milei’s hands,” reads the article, which criticizes the frontal approach to the United States and “the democracies of the West.”
Anticipating this anger, not only from China but from neighboring Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the rest of the members of the group, from the Foreign Ministry tried to put a cold shoulder and emphasized the gestures of rapprochement that the farewell letter also contains, such as the commitment to “intensify bilateral ties, in particular the increase in flows of trade and investment”. Close to the chancellor Diana Mondino They recalled that “the text is the same for everyone, and includes China and Russia”, to clear any vestige of criticism of the “communist countries”, questioned by Milei during the campaign.
At the San Martín Palace they also recalled that after Milei’s letter to Xi, in which he asked (unsuccessful so far) to accelerate the operation of the currency swap for US$6.5 billion, the Government ordered the speedy shipment of the career diplomat Marcelo Suarez Salvia, currently ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, as the new ambassador to that country, replacing Sabino Vaca Narvaja. With the return of the Chinese ambassador in Buenos Aires, Wang Weibefore January 12 (he left for China ten days ago for his “annual work report”), both governments hope to resume ties at the highest diplomatic level, although of course, the underlying differences seem far from having been resolved.
When it seemed that nothing could surprise the new government of San Luis, headed by Claudio Poggiin relation to the inheritance received from his predecessor, Alberto Rodríguez Saáan unusual move in the exercise of Puntano power was uncovered in Ranquel territory.
In fact, the governor himself denounced, this week, that officials close to the former governor, the former senator and minister Sergio Freixeshis private secretary Sofia Aguilera and his son and also a minister Alberto Rodríguez Saá (h), since 2017, they managed to manage a huge field belonging to the Aboriginal community, including agricultural and livestock farms, about 8,000 cows. To validate this management, both of them named themselves a few months ago as Lonkos (Chiefs) of the Ranquel community through an assembly, and now they will face a lawsuit from the provincial government before Justice for the management of no less than $280 million and the “disappearance” of $50 million, three days before the end of the mandate.
The field, the governor explained, has no less than 66,000 hectares, of which the Albertista officials “appropriated”, to the detriment of the Ranquel People-Nation. “His father used a noble cause to plunder the native community,” said Poggi, who is currently in trouble paying bonuses and other commitments, a situation for which he bluntly blames his predecessor.
The president’s passage caused a lot of commotion Javier Miley through Mar del Plata, where the president arrived on a scheduled flight to visit his partner, Fatima Florezstar of his seasonal comedy show, in which he even imitates the President himself.
The impressive security measures – superior to those of any visit by a previous president, according to local sources – were the framework of the brief presidential stay, who paid for his ticket and stay in the Happy City out of his own pocket, on a whirlwind trip that lasted a few hours, accompanied by a small group made up of the general secretary, Karina Milei; the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libaronaand the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello.
Without meetings or contacts of a political nature – there was not even a meeting with the local mayor, Guillermo Montenegrowith whom Milei has a good bond -, the President would have, however, given himself a personal treat.
