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China and Colombia have upgraded their relationship to a “strategic partnership” in a sign that Washington’s principal ally in South America is orienting itself towards Beijing.
Colombia’s first leftist president, Gustavo Petro, met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Wednesday on his maiden state visit to the world’s second-largest economy.
“We [China and Colombia] have become good friends and partners for win-win co-operation and common development,” Xi told Petro on Wednesday, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
The signing of the “strategic partnership” agreement leaves Guyana as the only South American country not to have the designation from Beijing.
Petro, who took office in August 2022, said on…
