Argentina was the only country of the 33 members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) that refused to sign the final document of the IV Ministerial Meeting of the Celac-China Forum (Photo), released in Beijing on May 13. The representatives of the Argentine Foreign Ministry traveled with the mandate arranged by the State Department, consisting of hosting China to prevent it from becoming the first global economy.

In this way, the Government of Javier Milei became a pariah administration for the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean. All right -wing governments in the region, even those who maintain diplomatic relations with Taiwan – a situation that is an affront for Beijing -, signed the final document of 28 points that promotes multilateralism, drives regional integration, defends sovereignty and questions US interpreticism.

The official data of the INDEC They confirm that the Asian giant is the second commercial partner of Argentina, with whom we even have a commercial surplus. The first place is occupied by Brazil, and in third place the United States appears, with whom we hold a deficit trade balance. Milei sent third level officials to congratate Donald Trump and disregard the leaders of Brasilia and Beijing, who together express almost 40 percent of exports. This offense against Xi Jinping was carried out after the Central Bank of the Popular Republic of China grant a renewal of the activated section of the activated section of the activated section of the swapconsisting of five billion dollars, of a total of 18 billion provided by Beijing.

The contempt made by Argentine officials also agreed with the incorporation of Colombia into the new Silk route and the dissemination of added data on trade between CELAC and the Popular Republic. During 2024, exchanges completed about 518 billion dollars, twice the value reached a decade ago, when the figures reached 200 billion. While Washington tries to involve CELAC in its hybrid war against China, the IV Forum insisted on the promotion of horizontal links – eager for involvement in the internal political affairs of each country -, respect for the diverse civilizational trajectories, the commitment to the environment and cooperation focused on the development of the global southern southern.

The United States government does not recognize CELAC to go from being composed of all the countries that they place in the Western hemisphere. This contempt adds to the various anti -American provocations enunciated by Donald Trump, including the threat of occupation of the Panama Canal, a situation that motivated the resignation of this country to the initiative of the Strip and the new silk route. This demand was completed servile by President José Raúl Mulino, reediting the pleitesy of those who contributed in 1903 to crack Colombia, with the sole objective of giving the Panama Canal to the United States.

One of the last actions promoted by Marco Rubio’s team was the operation deployed by the diplomats Argentines in Honduras, during the IX Summit of Heads of State and Government of the CELAC, an instance to which they were sent to boycott the Tegucigalpa declaration, Although it had a majority consensus for approval. Washington’s task – as a century ago was that of the United Kingdom, and before Spain – consists of fragmenting the big homeland, dismembling its territory, sowing distrust between the 33 members of the community, imposing functional policies to their interests, applying unilateral sanctions, promoting the persecution of popular leader, block Condor). Historical evidence also presents the possibility – always latent – of the appropriation of territories (Mexico), undercover military operations (Bay of the pigs) and direct military invasion, such as the one carried out repeatedly between 1898 and 1933, within the framework of the Gangs policy.

In the case of CELAC, Washington’s positioning has a triple committed. First, avoid all kinds of regional integration. Secondly, prevent Beijing from continuing to financing infrastructure projects that end up releasing the tutelage trade of domestic oligarchies, and – last – weakening the economy of the Asian giant. On the last visit of the Head of the Southern Command, Alvin Holsey, to Argentina, was instructed to Milei about the need to refuse to any offer of Xi Jinping to establish themselves in the area, which they consider “American” and, therefore, of its control, with clear expectation with respect to the Antarctic continent.

The Trumpist government intimidated Hong Kong businessman Li Ka-Shing to which participation in the administration of ports in peremptory, especially those located in Balboa and Cristóbal. The result was that the American asset management company BlackRock He acquired the 43 ports and 200 Transhipdo springs in 23 countries of the Hutchison company, owned by Ka-Shing. Chinese planners, who have been working and negotiating with different governments in the framework of the BRICs, foresaw these restrictions and decided to bet on the financing of the central rail corridor, known as the Bioceanic Train, which will connect the port of Santos, in Brazil, with the port of Chancay, in Peru, also crossing Bolivia, with important stations in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and in La Paz. Another of the planned alternatives is linked to the Tehuantepec Train, opened by Andrés López Obrador with the violent opposition of the Mexican oligarchies associated with the interests of Washington. This railroad articulates the port of Salina Cruz (Oaxaca), in the Pacific, with that of Coatzacoalcos (Veracruz), in the Atlantic.

While Argentine representatives shone by their absence in the ministerial plenary and refused to sign the documents of the Joint Action PlanBrazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, “Lula”, signed 20 agreements with the Chinese government. When Lula assumed the position for the first time, the total commercial balance with China implied around 7 billion dollars. Today it represents about 160 billion, counting Brazil with a commercial surplus of 31 billion. The loss of Chinese investments and the ignominious role of Argentina motivated the Argentine envoys – the Vice Chancellor Eduardo Bustamante and the chief of cabinet of the Ricardo Lachterman Foreign Ministry – were ridiculed with a consultation made by two journalists accredited in Beijing: “What is the reason why you participate in this event, if the United States has not been invited? Jostein Gaarder, the author of “The World of Sofia” wrote that “a single question can contain more gunpowder than a thousand answers.”