However, foreign policy experts believe it would be a “clumsiness” of government if the approach to China were “blackmail” under US pressure In 2019, the US. UU. If he reacted adversely to the approach to China.
At a news conference yesterday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said his country will not focus on forcing El Salvador to decide between approaching the US. UU. Or China.
This, in apparent response to the approaches that the Nayib Bukele administration seems to have with the Asian country, especially at a time when Washington’s criticism of the Salvadoran president for his lack of democratic commitment and signs of corruption in the its management.
In 2019, the United States reacted adversely to a Bukele trip to China and through its embassy and other Washington officials warned of the risks of partnering with that country.
Foreign policy experts consulted by The Daily Today believe that the rapprochement with China may be endorsed by the United States, but warn that it would be Bukele’s clumsiness if this were a “blackmail” of turning to China when Washington criticizes him. .
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For the former ambassador of El Salvador to the United Nations and the United States, Rubén Zamora, approaching this Asian country has no major impact, as long as China’s interest in the country is not one of military expansion.
However, he believes the implications of an alleged “political whim” can be costly, especially because in the US. UU. There are millions of Salvadorans, many of whom need reform to regularize their stay in this country.
For Zamora, the visit of Ricardo Zúñiga, the special envoy for the Northern Triangle, has a stronger connotation, as it already carries clear guidelines: overseeing respect for democracy, human rights and the fight against corruption.
Roberto Rubio, director of the National Development Foundation (Fon), stated that El Salvador is not an area of economic interest for China either, and sees a kind of “blackmail” of Bukele into the United States, but he believes that will not work.
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“It would be a mistake and a political awkwardness to continue confronting the United States, it is not the same to confront NGOs, the ANEP and the parties as Bukele has been doing, there with the United States, who must lose is him and the country, “Ros said.
He sees that an approach to China would not have major implications, because the FMLN already did, but it is a problem that the only thing El Salvador has to offer China is its geostrategic position and disputing spaces in the United States. . “There he would get into eleven-stick shirts,” Ros exemplified.
He added that continuing Bukele with the confrontations with the US will cause the country to make use of pressure instruments, such as the government’s current negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and jeopardizing access to cheaper financing with the Bank. World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.
For his part, foreign policy expert Napoleon Camps explains that the only purpose that China could have in El Salvador is diplomatic recognition, which it has already achieved with the government of former President Salvador Sánchez Cerén.
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