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China-El Salvador relations is the bilateral relationships between the People's Republic of China and Republic of El Salvador. China maintains an embassy in San Salvador and El Salvador maintains an embassy in Beijing. [1] [2]
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China-El Salvador relations is the bilateral relationships between the People's Republic of China and Republic of El Salvador. China maintains an embassy in San Salvador and El Salvador maintains an embassy in Beijing. [1] [2]
Diplomatic ties between China and El Salvador were first established on August 21, 2018. [3] China's State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with El Salvador Foreign Minister Carlos Castaneda and signed a joint communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations, deciding to recognize each other and establish diplomatic relations at an ambassadorial level from the date of the communique's signing. [3] [4] The government of El Salvador has ultimately severed diplomatic ties with the Republic of China, as a result of the Central American state recognizing the One-China policy. [5] [6]
China exported US$1.5 billion of goods to El Salvador and imported US$105 million in 2019. The major commodities exported by China to El Salvador are machinery, textiles, plastic and rubbers, and various miscellaneous items. While the major commodities that El Salvador exports to China are electrical capacitors, raw sugar, and coffee. Between 1995 and 2019, exports from El Salvador to China have increased at an annualized rate of 14.7%, while exports from China to El Salvador have increased at an annualized rate of 16.6%. [7]
Upon Nayib Bukele's visit to China in 2019, he had signed a series of MoUs with Xi Jinping, in which China would promise El Salvador a total of US$500 million in development projects. These projects include a new national football stadium, a new US$40 million national library, a tourist pier in La Libertad and Ilopango, and US$200 million on the "Surf City" project, thereby involving El Salvador in China's Belt and Road Initiative. [8] [9]
China offered El Salvador around US$150 million in social projects and 3,000 tons of rice to thousands of Salvadorian victims to droughts. [10]
Nayib Bukele announced on Twitter that a cooperation project granted by the People's Republic of China will have US$54 million new national library be built in El Salvador. [11] The Salvadoran President later announced on December 30, 2021 that the 50,000-capacity Estadio Nacional de El Salvador will be built to replace Estadio Cuscatlán as El Salvador's national football stadium, at a cost of US$100 million, in collaboration with China. [12] [13] [14]
The COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador saw vaccine diplomacy increase between China and El Salvador. El Salvador received from China 150,000 vaccine doses of the CoronaVac vaccine donated by China, on top of 2 million Sinovac vaccines that the Central American nation had purchased. [15]
China–Uruguay relations are the relations between the People's Republic of China and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Relations between both nations were first established in 1988. Relations were defined as “friendly and cooperative” by the Chinese government. The bilateral relation was promoted to a strategic partnership in 2016.
The Embassy of El Salvador in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of El Salvador to the United States. It is located at 1400 16th Street Northwest, Suite 100, Washington, D.C. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood.
El Salvador–Mexico relations refers to the diplomatic relations between El Salvador and Mexico. Both nations are members of the Association of Caribbean States, Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Organization of American States, Organization of Ibero-American States and the United Nations.
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who is the 43rd president of El Salvador since 1 June 2019 after winning the 2019 election. He ran as the candidate of the center-right Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) party and became the first president since José Napoleón Duarte (1984–1989) not to have been elected as the candidate of one of the country's two major political parties: the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). He is also the founder of the political party Nuevas Ideas (NI).
El Salvador–India relations refers to the international relations that exist between El Salvador and India. El Salvador maintains an embassy in New Delhi and an honorary consulate in Bangalore. The Embassy of India in Guatemala is jointly accredited to El Salvador. India also maintains an honorary consulate in San Salvador.
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 3 February 2019, with voters electing a President and Vice President for a five-year term.
Andorra and Mexico are members of the Organization of Ibero-American States and the United Nations.
Central American reunification, sometimes called Central Americanism, is the proposed political union of the countries of Central America, which had historically occurred during the existence of the United Provinces of Central America. At the moment it is followed mainly by groups and political parties of extreme left and internationalist ideology. It is distinct from the Central American integration process, which is a diplomatic initiative similar to that of the European Union.
Nuevas Ideas is a Salvadoran populist political party founded on 25 October 2017 and based in San Salvador. It was founded by the current President of the Republic of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. It was legalized by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) on 24 August 2018. Its first secretary general was Federico Gerardo Anliker and was later succeeded by Xavier Zablah Bukele.
The 2020 Salvadoran political crisis, commonly referred to as the numeronym 9F, was an incident in El Salvador on 9 February 2020. During the political crisis, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele sent 40 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army into the Legislative Assembly building in an effort to coerce politicians to approve a loan request of 109 million dollars from the United States for Bukele's security plan for the country.
The COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached El Salvador on 18 March 2020. As of 19 September 2021, El Salvador reported 102,024 cases, 3,114 deaths, and 84,981 recoveries. As of that date El Salvador had arrested a total of 2,424 people for violating quarantine orders, and 1,268,090 people had been tested for the virus. On 31 March 2020, the first COVID-19 death in El Salvador was confirmed.
Events in the year 2020 in El Salvador.
Vaccine diplomacy, a form of medical diplomacy, is the use of vaccines to improve a country's diplomatic relationship and influence of other countries. Meanwhile, vaccine diplomacy also "means a set of diplomatic measures taken to ensure access to the best practices in the development of potential vaccines, to enhance bilateral and/or multilateral cooperation between countries in conducting joint R&D, and, in the case of the announcement of production, to ensure the signing of a contract for the purchase of the vaccine at the shortest term." Although primary discussed in the context of the supply of COVID-19 vaccines, it also played a part in the distribution of the smallpox vaccine.
René Francis Merino Monroy is a Salvadoran vice admiral who serves as the incumbent Minister of Defense of El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele.
The Minister of National Defense of El SalvadorMinistro de Defensa Nacional de El Salvador is a Salvadoran military officer who serves as the head of the Ministry of National Defense of El Salvador.
Irma Michelle Martha Ninette Sol Schweikert de Castro most known as Michelle Sol is a Salvadoran politician and the incumbent Minister of Housing of El Salvador.
Ernesto Alfredo Castro Aldana is a Salvadoran politician who is currently the incumbent President of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.
A political crisis in El Salvador occurred on 1 May 2021 when the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador voted to remove several judges from the Supreme Court and remove the Attorney General of El Salvador, both of which had been vocal opponents to the presidency of Nayib Bukele. The event has been referred to as a self-coup by the opposition and by news media outlets due to the action itself but also because of the 2020 Salvadoran political crisis in the year prior, where Bukele ordered soldiers into the Legislative Assembly, which has also been characterized as a self-coup.
China–Colombia relations refers to the diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Colombia. Diplomatic relation were established in 1980. Both nations are members of the Group of 77 and the United Nations.
The National Stadium of El Salvador will be a multi-purpose stadium in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador. The stadium will bulit on the site of the current Escuela Militar Capitán General Gerardo Barrios. It will be the second modern sport and event arena to be built in Central America. The stadium will begin construction in 2022 and will have a capacity of 50,000. The stadium will replace the Estadio Cuscatlán, and will be the home stadium of the El Salvador national football team.
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