Peru wants to become China’s leading economic partner in South America

Peruvian president Alan Garcia said on Friday it is a national objective that Peru surpasses other South American countries in becoming the first commercial, economic and social partner of China.

After receiving Li Changchun, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, at the Government Palace in Lima, he said that Peru endorses China’s goal of reunifying all of Greater China under a single political entity.

“We are always wanted that China will become a single nation and have witnessed China’s enormous social development of China. All peoples can see the positives of that development”, he declared.

Li responded that China values its all-round cooperative partnership with Peru and is ready to add new vigor to the traditional friendship between the two countries. China will enhance political trust, expand strategic consensus and deepen economic cooperation with Peru and appreciates Peru for its adherence to the one-China policy.

Li Changchun is considered to be the propaganda chief of the Communist Party of China. He was the youngest ever member to be promoted to the Politburo in 1998.

After Hong Kong and Macau were reunited with mainland China under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, the only outstanding Chinese goal is the reunification of the mainland and Taiwan (and the islands of the Pescadores, Kinmen, Matsu), which has been administered by the Republic of China since 1945.

During his five-day stay in Peru, Li is also expected to visit the Lima City Hall, where Mayor Luis Castaneda will declare him a special guest.

Peru, which has the largest overseas Chinese community in the region, is one of the first Latin American countries that established diplomatic ties with China.

The country is the last leg of Li’s Latin America trip, which has taken him to Mexico, Venezuela, Suriname and Ecuador.

Wolfy Becker