Argentina has been getting very cozy with China, and has also been getting a lot of Chinese Yuen as well. After siding with China’s One China policy, which invalidates Taiwan’s claim as an independent nation, Argentina is now getting support from China in their claim on the Falkland Islands, a claim that led to the Falkland Islands War in 1982. The British have fired back at China through Twitter, with a UK Official, Liz Truss, saying the Falkland Islands are “part of the British family.”
From news.sky.com
2022-02-07 11:09:18
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The Falklands are “part of the British family”, according to Liz Truss, after China backed Argentina’s claims over the south Atlantic islands.
The foreign secretary wrote on Twitter that “China must respect Falklands’ sovereignty” after Argentina‘s President Alberto Fernandez met with Xi Jinping during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Chinese and Argentine leaders spoke of their “deep friendship”, in a statement on China’s London embassy website.
They agreed on an accord in which China reasserted its support for Argentina’s claim to the Falklands, while Mr Fernandez backed Mr Jinping’s one-China policy, which claims Taiwan as its own.
“The Argentine side reiterated its adherence to the one-China principle and the Chinese side reiterated its support for the Argentine side’s request to fully exercise its sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands issue,” the statement said.
British government officials have stayed away from the Beijing games as part of a boycott by several Western nations, in protest against human rights concerns.
Argentina also signed up to China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by Beijing in 2013.
