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A key Chinese allies with Peruvian presidential ambitions traveled to California late last month and took part in a delivery ceremony for a batch of trains donated from. Biden administrationaccording to a report by a Peruvian press.
Peruvian outlet impartial half At the time, Lima mayor Rafael Lopez Ariga, who is rumored to be considering a Peruvian president in 2026, reported that he was in California late last month to discuss the transport of Caltrain locomotives donated to Lima by the US government under the Biden administration.
Nate Picalchic and Emily de la Bruyere, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Democracy (FDD), Recently released Lopez Aliga’s “deep” financial ties with China, a study of his financial ties with China through his company Perle, has seen an increase in revenues over $65 million a year due to an increase in shipments from Minera Las Banbus, a Chinese-owned joint venture that counts the state-run mining giant, China’s minmetal as a majority supporter.
The report claimed that China “Grow” Lopez Arigas for a higher office in Peru, hoping to grow mineral and battery supply south america. The report is supposed to blow away Lopez Ariga’s “Chinese Man in Peru.”
Xi Jinping (left) and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) at the train donation ceremony held in Lima, Peru in November 2024. (Getty/US Embassy, Peru)
“The presence of Chinese mining in Peru is a direct bounty of Lopez Aliga,” the report states, giving Beijing “Peruous Beach Head.”
The report states, “It leaves behind China, its resource projects and influential Peruvian political leaders linked along the broader China. Belt and Road Initiative It’s part of that. ”
Over the past few years, China’s investment in South America and Peru has increased significantly.
According to NBC News, China has invested $1.3 billion in a massive deep sea port in Chankai, Peru, just north of Lima.
President of China xi Jinping According to the outlet, he attended the port’s opening ceremony in 2024.
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According to Picarsic, China has also invested heavily in Lima’s infrastructure, most notably controlling the electricity industry, all of which Lopez Ariga was a work of “Lynch Pin” that advances China’s control.
Now, with Lopez Ariga likely to enter the Peruvian presidential election, Picalchic explained that this all “seems like a bright sign of Chinese handicraft.”
He also called the donations of trains from the US to Peru “too little, too late” and was unable to combat China’s growing influence in the region.
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Thursday, June 20th, 2024, the coast of Lima, Peru. (Milco Torres Ramirez/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“We have some abolished railcar donations. But this guy with China brings them in, feeding Chinese railroads to Chinese ports and helping them move goods from Chinese mines.”
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken took part in the train don ceremony in Lima, Peru last November, praised the project as an opportunity to “strengthen Peru-US relations,” saying the train “is not merely a symbol, but a practical manifestation of possibilities.”
“This agreement is a testament to the strength and durability of the longstanding mutually beneficial relationship between the United States and Peru,” he added. “I am extremely proud that Caltrain will be a member of that mutually beneficial relationship.”