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Javier Milei

The latest news on Javier Milei, the President of Argentina, including China-Argentina relations, plus politics in South America.

Born

22 Oct 1970

Industry

Politics

Job Title

Politician

An advertisement for Netflix’s new series The Eternaut is partially covered by posters of sci-fi comic author Hector Oesterheld and his daughters - who were forcibly disappeared in 1977 during Argentina’s military dictatorship - in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 6, 2025. Photo: AP

TV shows and streaming video

How Netflix hit The Eternaut brings real past horrors to the fore

The show has reopened historical wounds in Argentina at a moment of heightened anxiety about society under far-right President Javier Milei.

1 Jun 2025 - 8:45AM

Americas and the Caribbean

Milei orders immigration crackdown to ‘make Argentina great again’

15 May 2025 - 1:26PM

Pope Francis

Where will Trump sit during Pope Francis’ funeral? It’s complicated

26 Apr 2025 - 7:38AM

US-China relations

China fires back after US official takes swipe at aid to Global South

Beijing tells Washington to stop sowing discord after US treasury secretary accuses China of signing ‘rapacious deals’ with developing world.

15 Apr 2025 - 7:29PMvideocam

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks outside the White House in Washington on March 13. Bessent took aim at China’s currency swap deal with Argentina in an interview earlier this week. Photo: TNS

United States

My Take | A ‘toxic masculinity’ explanation of Donald Trump’s foreign policy

In his relations with other nations, the US president exhibits the same pattern of abuse of power as his alleged treatment of women.

20 Mar 2025 - 9:00PM

Blockchain

Bitcoin slides below US$90,000 as cryptocurrency sell-off hastens

Tumbling crypto prices mirror a broader retreat from risky assets, while sentiment has also soured following a hack targeting exchange Bybit.

26 Feb 2025 - 10:01AM

Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration

With Trump’s inauguration, US-China rivalry opens new and uncertain chapter

Whether and how the mercurial president-elect delivers on his various pledges on trade with Beijing and other issues will be anyone’s guess.

20 Jan 2025 - 4:13PMvideocam

A conductor attends a rehearsal in front of the US Capitol in Washington ahead of Donald Trump’s January 20 presidential inauguration. Photo: Reuters

US-China relations

Trump’s pick of Rubio as top US diplomat leaves Latin America bracing

Long-time outspoken China critic raises concerns in region he might press governments to choose sides between Washington and Beijing.

31 Dec 2024 - 3:29AMvideocam

Donald Trump

Argentina’s Milei says he expects to attend Trump’s inauguration

China’s Xi Jinping and other world leaders have been invited, but no foreign head of state has attended such an event in at least a century.

15 Dec 2024 - 4:10AM

China-Germany relations

At G20, China’s Xi Jinping meets with leaders of Germany, France, Argentina

Germany’s Scholz stresses the importance of ‘a level playing field for companies on all sides’.

20 Nov 2024 - 4:27AMvideocam

In Brazil, China’s President Xi Jinping, left, speaks to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the G20 summit. Photo: dpa

Venezuela

Venezuelan leader slams TikTok for ‘wanting civil war’ in his country

Nicolas Maduro, reeling from protests over his disputed re-election, says Chinese-owned company has suspended his access to the platform.

14 Aug 2024 - 3:17AMvideocam

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro walks through the Supreme Tribunal of Justice in Caracas on Friday. Photo: Reuters

Argentina

My Take | Argentina’s Milei wants China out, America in

Chinese infrastructure builders are leaving and US spies, soldiers and corporate America are returning with the new government in Buenos Aires.

28 Mar 2024 - 9:00PM

Diplomacy

Opinion | Why are so many countries rethinking their relations with China?

With the pandemic waning and global conflicts reshaping geopolitics, some nations are reassessing their relationship with China. This rethink could threaten China’s global influence and further divide the world into opposing camps like in the Cold War.

21 Mar 2024 - 9:01PMvideocam

Americas and the Caribbean

US must update Latin America toolkit to keep pace with China sway: officials

Washington better served by focusing on economics and other areas to ‘counter malign forms of Chinese and Russian influence’, according to new report.

29 Feb 2024 - 12:25AMvideocam

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino presiding at a press conference in Buenos Aires on Friday. Photo: Bloomberg

Britain

UK’s Cameron visits Falklands in 30-year first, sparking ‘provocation’ claim

David Cameron toured battle sites of the Falklands War on Monday in the first visit by a British foreign secretary to the South Atlantic archipelago in three decades.

22 Feb 2024 - 5:24PM

Britain

Cameron to visit Falklands, says islands’ sovereignty ‘not up for discussion’

Argentina has asked the UK for talks on the disputed islands based on an approach similar to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

18 Feb 2024 - 7:48PM

Americas and the Caribbean

US secretary of state to meet with Brazilian and Argentine presidents next week

After taking part in a Group of 20 meeting, Antony Blinken is expected to meet with Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia and Javier Milei in Buenos Aires.

17 Feb 2024 - 6:47AM

Americas and the Caribbean

Argentina’s Javier Milei makes up with Pope Francis over pastries, biscuits

They met as Argentina faces its worst economic crisis in decades, with inflation at more than 200 per cent and Milei in trouble after his major reform package was rejected.

12 Feb 2024 - 9:41PM

Pope Francis receives Argentina’s President Javier Milei during an audience at the Vatican City. Photo: EPA-EFE

My Take

My Take | Lionel Messi has only added to Beijing’s displeasure at Argentina

China’s cancellation of the Argentine football team’s mainland tour may have more to do with new president Javier Milei than the star player.

11 Feb 2024 - 9:00PM

China-Russia relations

Putin to visit China and hold ‘several meetings’ with Xi this year

Ambassador to Moscow Zhang Hanhui also tells Sputnik news service that the Russian leader’s visit to China ‘will definitely be a success’.

11 Feb 2024 - 7:50PMvideocam

Aviation accidents

Chile’s former president Sebastian Pinera dies in helicopter crash

Sources say Pinera was piloting helicopter that plunged into a lake in southern Chile. Three others survived.

7 Feb 2024 - 4:45PM

Sebastian Pinera in a helicopter in 2006. The former Chilean president died on Tuesday in a crash. File photo: AFP

China economy

My Take | Why a speech by Argentina’s Javier Milei strikes a chord in China

The Argentinian president’s argument against ‘socialism’ has given Chinese netizens a chance to rethink a topic important to their country’s future.

30 Jan 2024 - 9:40AM

Argentina’s President Javier Milei at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 17. Photo: Reuters

Americas and the Caribbean

Argentina’s Milei praises free markets, slams socialism at Davos

The self-proclaimed ‘anarcho-capitalist’ president is making hist first overseas tour, even as he battles a major economic crisis at home.

18 Jan 2024 - 2:56AM

World Economic Forum

At Davos, Blinken says pathway to Palestinian state necessity for Israel security

If Israel can be brought into the fold of the Middle East, Blinken said, the region would be coming together to isolate Iran, which he called “the biggest concern in terms of security”.

17 Jan 2024 - 8:47PM

Li Qiang

China’s Li Qiang to attend World Economic Forum in Davos

Chinese premier will address opening ceremony at annual meeting of political and business leaders, then pay official visits to Switzerland and Ireland as Beijing kicks off ‘high-level exchange’ with Europe.

11 Jan 2024 - 8:51PM

Chinese Premier Li Qiang will be the most senior Beijing official to join the annual Davos meeting in person since 2017. Photo: Xinhua

Argentina

China cuts tariffs on 143 Argentine products amid tense bilateral ties

Beijing says wide-ranging reductions on items ranging from sweetcorn to plywood meant to help global and domestic markets.

10 Jan 2024 - 2:43AM

Argentine President Javier Milei gestures to supporters in Rio Gallegos, Argentina, on Friday. The right-wing libertarian won the country’s presidency in November. Photo: Reuters

Diplomacy

Argentina’s snub may strain China ties but Brics has ‘dodged a bullet’

President Javier Milei’s pivot towards the West ‘may lead to a decrease’ in engagement with Beijing, according to analyst. Another says the move is a ‘blessing in disguise’ for the bloc.

13 Feb 2024 - 3:12PM

Brics

Argentina confirms it will not join Brics alliance in Milei’s latest policy shift

In a letter addressed to the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – members of the Brics alliance – Milei said the moment was not ‘opportune’ for Argentina to join. It had been set to join on Monday.

30 Dec 2023 - 6:14AM

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