Meet ‘china’s Man In Lima’ Who Jetted Over To Us To Collect Trains Donated By Biden Admin

A cardinal China state pinch statesmanlike ambitions successful Peru traveled precocious past period to California to participate successful a sending-off ceremonial for a batch of trains donated by nan Biden administration, according to reporting by Peruvian news outlets.

Peruvian outlet Justo Medio reported astatine nan clip that Lima Mayor Rafael Lopez Aliaga, who is rumored to beryllium considering a tally for president of Peru successful 2026, was successful California precocious past period to talk nan carrier of a batch of CalTrain locomotives, which were donated to Lima by nan U.S. authorities nether nan Biden administration.  

Nate Picarsic and Emily de La Bruyère, a elder chap astatine nan Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), recently published a study connected Lopez Aliaga’s "deep" financial ties to China done his institution PeruRail, which has seen its gross emergence to complete $65 cardinal per twelvemonth owed to accrued shipments from Minera Las Bambas, a Chinese-owned associated task counting state-owned mining elephantine China Minmetals arsenic its mostly backer.

The study alleged that China has been "cultivating" Lopez Aliaga for higher agency successful Peru successful hopes of increasing its mineral and artillery supplies harvesting successful South America. The study goes truthful acold arsenic to dub Lopez Aliaga "China’s man successful Peru."

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Xi Jinping (Left) and erstwhile Secretary of State Antony Blinken (Right) astatine a November 2024 train aid ceremonial successful Lima, Peru. (Getty/U.S. Embassy successful Peru)

"China’s mining beingness successful Peru is simply a nonstop boon for López Aliaga," nan study said, giving Beijing "a powerful beachhead successful Peru."

The study said, "This leaves an influential Peruvian governmental leader aligned pinch and linked to China, its assets project, and nan broader Belt and Road Initiative of which it is part."

In nan past respective years, Chinese finance successful South America, and Peru especially, has importantly increased. 

According to NBC News, China invested $1.3 cardinal successful a monolithic deepwater larboard successful Chancay, Peru, conscionable northbound of Lima. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping participated successful nan port’s opening ceremonial successful 2024, during which he called nan larboard nan commencement of China’s 21st-century maritime Silk Road, according to nan outlet.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands pinch Chinese President Xi Jinping during a gathering astatine nan Belt and Road Forum successful Beijing, China, October 18, 2023.   (Sputnik/Sergei Guneev/Pool via Reuters)

According to Picarsic, China has besides been investing heavy successful Lima’s infrastructure, astir notably dominating its energy industry, each of which Lopez Aliaga has been a "linchpin" portion successful moving Chinese power forward.

Now, pinch Lopez Aliaga perchance entering Peru’s statesmanlike race, Picarsic explained that this each "looks for illustration a telltale motion of China's handiwork."

He besides called nan U.S.’s aid of trains to Peru "too little, excessively late" to combat China’s increasing power successful nan region.

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The seashore of Lima, Peru, connected Thursday, June 20, 2024.  (Milko Torres Ramirez/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"We're coming pinch a aid of immoderate number of decommissioned obstruction cars. But this guy, who is successful cahoots pinch China, who's coming to return them and he's taking them backmost to tally connected Chinese obstruction feeding into a Chinese port, helping to move equipment from a Chinese mine."

Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken participated successful a train-donation ceremonial past November successful Lima, Peru, wherever he praised nan task arsenic an opportunity to "strengthen nan ties betwixt Peru and nan United States" and said nan trains "are not conscionable a symbol, but nan applicable manifestation of possibilities – nan possibilities that travel erstwhile we link to each other."

"This statement is simply a testament to nan spot and durability of nan U.S. and Peru’s longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship," he added. "I americium truthful proud to person Caltrain beryllium a personnel of that mutually beneficial relationship."