Everyone is progressing except you: A Chinese official invited Argentines to join the opportunities present in the nation.

An Guanghui, economic and commercial advisor of the Chinese Embassy in Argentina, employed a diplomatic yet educational approach to indirectly convey that the country is sleeping on the commercial opportunities offered by the Asian nation. In 2024, trade between Brazil and China –said An Guanghui at the China Agribusiness Day held this Thursday– reached 188 billion dollars, while the figure for Argentina amounted to just 17.7 billion. That is: ten times less! What the Chinese official did not say is that in 2024 Brazil registered a trade surplus with China of 31.3 billion dollars, while in that year Argentina experienced a trade deficit of 5.6 billion with the Asian country. An Guanghui also mentioned that in 2024 Chilean cherry exports were 3.575 billion dollars, most of which were sent to China. Surely he had many more examples to highlight, but the scheduled talk times at the China Agribusiness Day –an event organized at the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange by the Argentine-Chinese ...