Milei’s Meeting With Xi Signals He’s Come Full Circle on China

  • Argentine, Chinese leaders set for their first talks at G-20
  • Libertarian once derided the Asian nation as ‘an assassin’
Javier Milei's thinking on China has changed since his presidential campaign last year.Photographer: Milan Jaros/Bloomberg
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Argentine President Javier Milei is preparing for his first sit-down with Xi Jinping, despite once scoffing that he’d never cut deals with communists.

The meeting with the Chinese president, which Milei’s spokesman said Saturday would take place on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit, shows how far the libertarian economist has come in his thinking since his election victory a year ago.