2023-09-13 23:29:51
The president of China, Xi Jinping, announced this Wednesday in a meeting in Beijing with his counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, the strengthening of relations with Venezuela, which will be raised to their highest level.
“I am very happy to announce with you the elevation of relations between China and Venezuela to a level of strategic partnership that is foolproof and at all times,” Xi said in images broadcast on state television. This is the highest level of Chinese diplomatic relations. Only Pakistan, Russia and Belarus have this treatment.
According to the Chinese leader, the partnership “satisfies the common expectations of the two peoples and corresponds to the general trend of historical development.” China “as always, will firmly support Venezuela’s efforts to safeguard national sovereignty, national dignity and social stability, and firmly support Venezuela’s just cause of opposing foreign interference,” Xi said, adding that it will define with Maduro a plan for the development of relations and deepening cooperation in various areas.
The Venezuelan word
Maduro indicated that China became a “great country committed to the peace, development and well-being of all humanity and an important driving force to promote the new world of multipolarity.” He also thanked “the Chinese Government and people for their invaluable support and assistance at a time when the country was suffering from the multiple difficulties posed by illegal unilateral sanctions and the Covid-19 epidemic.” “Thanks to the help of our Chinese brothers, the Venezuelan people withstood the test and achieved extraordinary achievements in the cause of national economic construction,” declared Maduro.
The president stressed that Venezuela supports the joint construction of “The Belt and the Road”, a Chinese megaproject that invokes the ancient Silk Road to strengthen links with the rest of the world through the creation of commercial, maritime and land routes. , and the global development, security and civilization initiatives proposed by Xi.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the South American nation, Yván Gil, explained through the social network science, technology, industry and aerospace development. Both countries also agreed to “strengthen communication” between their governments and “continue to elevate bilateral relations”, established in 1974 and strengthened since the mandate of the late President Hugo Chávez between 1999 and 2013.
Maduro’s tour
The capital was Maduro’s last stop on his tour of China. His visit, the first he has made since 2018 to China, one of the main creditors of the Latin American country, whose GDP fell 80% in a decade.
On Tuesday, Maduro held a meeting in Beijing with the director of the China International Center for Poverty Reduction, Liu Junwen, after which the Venezuelan assured in his X account that China and Venezuela “are united in their commitment to building a inclusive model of equality and justice for all.
The president also went to Taishan Mountain in Shandong province, one of China’s sacred mountains. There he asked “with great faith: blessings for Venezuela, strength and wisdom to continue along the paths of well-being and peace.” In that province he met with the president of the Permanent Committee of the Provincial People’s Assembly, Lin Wu, and declared that “steps were taken towards twinning” between this region and the Venezuelan states of Anzoátegui and Monagas, both located in the oil east. .
During his stay in Shanghai, Maduro met on Sunday with the president of the New Development Bank of the BRICS group, Dilma Rousseff, to obtain support for a possible entry of Venezuela into the group, which opened the doors to new partners. “We could classify the expanded BRICS group as the great engine for accelerating the process of birth of a new world, a world of cooperation where the Global South has the primary voice,” said the president in an interview with Chinese media. .
Prior to Maduro’s tour, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez had traveled to Shanghai and Beijing last week, where she met with the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi, to obtain investments in the oil sector and discuss possible joint ventures. between companies from both countries. A month earlier, Maduro had signed the decrees activating four “special economic zones” to advance the construction of a new post-oil model for Venezuela.
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