President Andrés Manuel López Obradorreiterated its commitment to continue maintaining Good relations with China.
“We reiterate our commitment to continue maintaining good relations for the benefit of our people and our nations,” President López Obrador said in a tweet.
“It is a very important meeting,” the chancellor said last Tuesday. Alicia Barcena at a press conference. “It is an alliance (…) China has always been interested in having a close relationship with Mexico,” she added.
The chancellor explained that the presidents must take stock of imports and exports between both countries.
Only in the first half of the year, foreign direct investment from China to Mexico it was of 10 thousand 700 million dollarsaccording to data from the Mexican government.
“China has offered us support with Acapulco“he added Barcena referring to the tourist region that was hard hit by the passage of the Hurricane Otis.
The chancellor also declared that Lopez Obrador will address in its bilateral meetings in San Francisco “the value chain of fentanyl“.
“How to have better control of what comes out of Asia and what comes to Mexicobecause there is logically a line of fentanyl precursors that it is legal that goes to anesthetic and cosmetic medications and the part that is not legal”.
On Wednesday, during an extensive meeting with Biden, Xi agreed to take measures to cut off the supply of chemicals for the production of synthetic opioid.
Later, in a meeting with businessmen, the Chinese president expressed his “empathy” with the drug victims that has caused a epidemic in USA.
“I want to tell everyone that China deeply empathizes with the American people, especially young people, for the suffering that fentanyl has caused them,” he said.
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“Mexico has done a lot of work and I think we have a lot to show for how Mexico is carrying out control” of trafficking, Bárcena said.