The Government and Peronism strengthen relations with China and the Communist Party via Zoom

Guido Carelli Lynch

04/23/2021 8:26 AM

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Updated 04/23/2021 8:26 AM

Among all the calls and congratulations

Alberto Fernández

received

when he assumed the presidency of the Justicialista Party, one in particular stood out: the extensive letter that Chinese President

Xi Jinping

sent him

. The president of the Asian giant is also the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. The gesture is more than a detail: Peronism and the government are strengthening ties with Beijing. This Friday (at 8.30 local time) party authorities of the PJ and the PC will maintain a new Zoom to bring both worlds closer together.

Fernández in principle will not be from the game; much less Xi Jinping. On Thursday it happened that the Argentine president inaugurated in La Matanza the mobile health center that China donated to Argentina. Also, that the Executive confirmed the shipment of

one million

more

doses

of Sinopharm vaccines.

Despite the absence of the two presidents, important party and political leaders from both countries and governments will participate in the video call. On the side of the PJ will be present the deputy head of the block of the Frente de Todos in Deputies,

Cristina Alvarez Rodríguez

, who is also vice president of the PJ; Senator and former Foreign Minister

Jorge Taiana

;

José Luis Gioja

, member of the National Party Council; and the brand new Argentine ambassador in Beijing

Sabino Vaca Narvaja

.

On the part of the Chinese Communist Party, which this year celebrates 100 years of history,

Shen Beili

, vice minister of the International Department;

Wang Yulin

, Director General of the Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean; and

Fu Jie

, deputy director general of the Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The idea of ​​the PJ authorities was for Fernández to participate in the videoconference, but the president - who this Thursday participated in the climate summit led by US President

Joe Biden

- excused himself due to scheduling problems. On Thursday, Alvarez Rodríguez and the head of the Buenos Aires PJ and Senator of La Cámpora

Mariano Recalde

passed through Casa Rosada

. "Maybe they went to convince Alberto," a purebred Peronist who was aware of the meeting was enthusiastic. In the Government they relativized that possibility.

Last week, Fernández told Biden's envoy, José González, who visited him in Olivos, that he would

not set up another Chinese base

in Argentina. In the Government they insist that the bet on foreign policy is for multilateralism. Noteworthy are the contracts signed with China for 4 million vaccines and donations of masks and medical supplies from Beijing. The personal bond between Fernández and Ji Jinping stands out, which was inaugurated on October 29, 2019 and included a phone call last year, several letters and two Argentine ambassadors:

Luis María Kreckler

and Vaca Narvaja. 

Last August 12 there had already been a zoom between authorities of the two government parties. On that occasion, the Peronist leaders who participated were, in addition to the then party president, Gioja; the governor of Formosa

Gildo Insfrán

y Taiana. "We need, with absolute sincerity, that the growth with

social justice

that the People's Republic of China has had can also be an

example for Argentina

that is suffering the consequences of the pandemic," said then the former governor of San Juan, who admires the process reduction of poverty in the Asian giant.

Gioja cultivated that partisan bond for six years, including trips to Beijing.

His first time in China was in 1996 when he traveled to Beijing to promote mining in his province.

It is curious, anyway, that while Peronism was not in power, the PC drew a relationship with the PRO.

In 2016,

Mauricio Macri

received at the Casa Rosada

Sun Zhengcai

, who was a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese CP.

Later, a delegation of pro-PRO authorities traveled to Beijing to meet with their then counterparts from the Asian giant's ruling party.

From the PJ they insist that the true interest of the Chinese CP resides in the popular parties. They point out the long link between the two parties and countries, which also included a letter of praise from Juan Perón to Mao Zedong.