Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro will arrive in China on Friday as he tries to secure financial support from President Xi Jinping’s government before a presidential election.
Maduro will pay a state visit from Sept. 8-14, China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. His visit comes as Xi skips the Group of Twenty leaders’ summit in India this weekend for the first time since coming to power.Venezuela and China are re-establishing connections after years of cooling ties, and against a backdrop of intensifying Washington-Beijing rivalry.
The delegation has met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Dilma Rousseff, president of the New Development Bank, headquartered in Shanghai and launched by BRICS members. They have also visited Shanghai’s Oil and Gas Exchange.
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