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Bolton speaks to El Salvador president-elect about 'predatory' China
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS FEBRUARY 13, 2019 / 4:20 PM / UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
Bolton speaks to El Salvador president-elect about 'predatory' China
Nelson Renteria
2 MIN READ
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador’s President-elect Nayib Bukele spoke by phone on Wednesday with U.S. National Security advisor John Bolton, who said he requested cooperation to counteract what he called the “predatory” expansion of China.
Bukele, the first candidate not from the poor Central American country’s two civil war-era parties to win a presidential election in a generation, said that his government would be a strong U.S. partner to the United States.
“The United States will find in El Salvador, not only an ally, but also a friend,” Bukele wrote on Twitter.
Relations with Washington suffered under the outgoing government of the left-wing Faribundi Marti National Liberation front (FMLN), the party of El Salvador’s former guerrilla movement, which established relations with China at the expense of Taiwan in August.
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Bolton speaks to El Salvador president-elect about 'predatory' China
Nelson Renteria
2 MIN READ
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador’s President-elect Nayib Bukele spoke by phone on Wednesday with U.S. National Security advisor John Bolton, who said he requested cooperation to counteract what he called the “predatory” expansion of China.
Bukele, the first candidate not from the poor Central American country’s two civil war-era parties to win a presidential election in a generation, said that his government would be a strong U.S. partner to the United States.
“The United States will find in El Salvador, not only an ally, but also a friend,” Bukele wrote on Twitter.
Relations with Washington suffered under the outgoing government of the left-wing Faribundi Marti National Liberation front (FMLN), the party of El Salvador’s former guerrilla movement, which established relations with China at the expense of Taiwan in August.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-el-salvador-usa/bolton-speaks-to-el-salvador-president-elect-about-predatory-china-idUSKCN1Q22SN
