China rebuts top US diplomat Marco Rubio over ‘Communist Party-backed projects’ in Peru
Embassy in Lima defends US$30 billion investment stock and takes aim at visa curbs as Fujimori joins Trump’s Shield of the Americas
Fujimori, a conservative who took office in July, has courted Washington on security while protecting its trade with China, which buys 35 to 38 per cent of Peruvian exports.
“Projects backed by the Chinese Communist Party bypass Peru’s legal frameworks and pose risks to transparency and data security,” Rubio wrote in the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio ahead of the visit.
In its statement on Tuesday, the embassy said China had “never interfered in the internal affairs of other countries” and “never demanded that other countries take sides”.
“The western hemisphere is nobody’s backyard,” it added.
