Throughout this process, the Chinese dream and the Latin American and Caribbean dream are always closely connected, and China’s original aspiration to develop relations with LAC remains unchanged. Since China always sees in LAC:
ORn good friend of equality and mutual trust. China always respects the development paths sovereignly chosen by the Latin American and Caribbean peoples. Since he took office, President Xi Jinping has made five visits to LAC. Under the guidance of Heads of State diplomacy, China and LAC have been deepening political mutual trust, and firmly relying on each other’s vital interests and fundamental concerns. After the appearance of COVID-19, President Xi Jinping has had close communication with LAC leaders early in the morning through telephone calls, letters and other modalities of cloud diplomacy, thus managing to agglutinate consensus and conduct China relations together. -LAC for the right course. The one-China consensus has been increasingly consolidated in the region with the establishment and restoration of diplomatic relations between China and most countries in the region. Taking the China-CELAC Forum as a foothold, both parties have been promoting and deepening cooperation between China and LAC as a whole, hence the tree of China-LAC friendship has become more leafy.
ORn good co-development partner. LAC constitutes a natural extension of the Belt and Road, which has injected strong impetus into China-LAC cooperation in various areas. An increasing number of countries in the region have been cooperating with China to promote the joint construction of the high-quality Belt and Road. In recent years, China has maintained its status as LAC’s second largest trading partner. In 2021, China-LAC trade grew despite the difficulties, surpassing 450 billion dollars. In 2022, the China-LAC trade volume registered a year-on-year increase of 7.7%, reaching 485.79 billion dollars. LAC has positioned itself for several consecutive years as the second destination for Chinese investment abroad. More than 3,000 Chinese companies have had operations in LAC, already creating numerous local jobs.
This mutually beneficial cooperation has been expanding its borders, giving fruitful results. As an example, China has provided the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center with thousands of wheat germplasm resources. Chile and Brazil have carried out cooperation with China in the joint production of vaccines and the research and development of drugs, providing shielding for the health of their peoples. Santiago de Chile has become the second most important city in the world in terms of the number of electric buses thanks to Chinese electric vehicles. Argentina and Chile have provided supplies to “Xuelong”, China’s polar research ship, on several occasions… This cooperation, which has been renewed with time and innovation, has offered more development opportunities for both parties, with many emerging areas and countless new projects.
a good companion on the path of multilateralism. So different in their national conditions, histories and cultures, China and the LAC countries have been able to overcome, as men who share the same ideals, the immensity of the ocean. Under the framework of international law and multilateralism, China and LAC countries are striving to build a new type of international relations where mutual respect, fairness and justice, cooperation and win-win prevail. Every day more countries in the region support and join the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, both proposed by China. This country, in turn, always supports the LAC integration process, as well as a greater role for the countries of the region in regional and international affairs. To this, we must add the close communication and coordination between both parties on multilateral issues such as climate change and food security, in defense of the common interests of developing countries and emerging markets.
In the midst of a new period of turbulence and transformation, the world is filled with uncertainty and instability, and humanity faces even more severe challenges. In this context, no matter how stormy the sea is, they will get by as long as they row in rhythm. As friends of equality and trust, and partners for shared development, China and LAC will stick to their original aspiration of marching together towards their dreams and promoting the common values of humanity such as peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom, with a view to contributing, from the China-LAC community with a shared future that they are building, more of their own strength to the community with a shared future of humanity.
Observer for international affairs in Beijing
Source: Ambito
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