{"id":142306,"date":"2026-02-21T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=142306"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:05:59","slug":"argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina\u2019s Milei heads to the US again, balancing Trump ties with growing China trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) \u2014 Argentina\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-midterm-election-javier-milei-66d7c03825a7a0f56ce5808ff3ac1df4\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">President Javier Milei<\/a><\/span>\u00a0set off Wednesday for his 14th trip to the United States to take part in the inaugural session of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-gaza-board-peace-reconstruction-stabilization-685251b3e8f24cf8779d6fe3f5f2ca04\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Board of Peace<\/a><\/span>\u00a0initiative. He is also expected to attend Trump\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-latin-america-china-venezuela-c7eda634084551716f1535a6f78496ba\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">regional summit<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Miami on March 7 with Latin American leaders aligned with the White House\u2019s political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The visits come as Trump seeks to bolster alliances to counter Chinese influence in Latin America, and as Milei \u2014 whose country counts China as its top trading partner \u2014 walks a careful diplomatic line, reshaping Argentine foreign policy to mirror Washington\u2019s while pursuing closer economic ties with Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-milei-us-trump-china-b23f8bc5ffd461f17e395b786cbf896b\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at AP News<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) \u2014 Argentina\u2019s\u00a0President Javier Milei\u00a0set off Wednesday for his 14th trip to the United States to take part in the inaugural session of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0Board &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":142311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,48,5,47],"tags":[813,241,1149,2521,2714,800,914],"class_list":["post-142306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-latin-america","category-news","category-north-america","tag-argentina","tag-china","tag-global-trade","tag-libertarianism","tag-milei","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}