Xi touts Global South solidarity in Uruguay talks


Uruguay's President Yamandu Orsi (R) speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on February 3, 2026. (Photo by JESSICA LEE / POOL / AFP)

CHINA and Uruguay should work together to advance an “equal and orderly multipolar world”, President Xi Jinping told his counterpart Yamandu Orsi, as their nations signed up to cooperate in areas from trade to the environment.

Orsi’s visit is the first by a South American leader to the Chinese capital since the United States invaded Venezuela in January and captured then president Nicolas Maduro in a raid.

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