Milei Softens on China as Clean Break Threatens Argentina Economy – Bloomberg
Now, President Milei is taking a far more pragmatic tone, saying trade relations between China and Argentina haven t changed one bit, and that he had no intentions of touching an $18 billion currency swap.
We have always said that we are libertarians, he said in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait. If people want to do business with China, they can.
Chinese trade and investment now drive large swaths of Argentina s economy, ranging from commodities and energy to banking. That remains true even after China’s recent market rout led the country to rein in some of its foreign investment.