U.S.'s Bolton speaks to El Salvador president-elect about 'predatory' China

FILE PHOTO: Presidential candidate Nayib Bukele of the Great National Alliance (GANA) gestures to his supporters after official results in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador February 3, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's President-elect Nayib Bukele spoke by phone on Wednesday with U.S. National Security advisor John Bolton, who said he requested cooperation to counteract what he called the "predatory" expansion of China.

Bukele, the first candidate not from the poor Central American country's two civil war-era parties to win a presidential election in a generation, said that his government would be a strong U.S. partner to the United States.