Overview
- Beijing and Montevideo signed a joint declaration to deepen their strategic partnership along with 12 cooperation documents covering science and technology, environmental cooperation, meat trade and intellectual property, with a Chinese readout also highlighting finance, agriculture, infrastructure, ICT and emerging areas such as green development, digital economy, artificial intelligence and clean energy.
- Xi framed the ties as part of a push for an equal, orderly multipolar world, voiced support for Latin American sovereignty and development interests, and backed Uruguay’s 2026 leadership roles in the Group of 77+, CELAC and Mercosur.
- Orsi said relations are in their best moment and called for greater diversification in goods alongside expanded services and investment to raise the partnership to a new level.
- The Uruguayan leader is in China through Feb 7 with a 150-person delegation that includes business leaders and will visit Shanghai after meetings in Beijing.
- The trip is the first by a Latin American leader to Beijing since the January U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Nicolás Maduro, and it comes as China remains Uruguay’s top export market with $3.49 billion in 2025 sales, or 26% of exports.