Category: falklands

Argentina Asks UK to Resume Negotiations Over Falklands Sovereignty

March 3, 2023
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Argentina has again asked the UK to restart negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, the Argentine Foreign Ministry has said. Argentina has continued to lay territorial claims to the British-run islands in the South Atlantic, over which the two countries fought a war in 1982, costing hundreds of lives. Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago…

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The Falklands, China, and Hypersonic Weapons

February 16, 2022
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News Analysis China used an Olympics summit with Argentina to remind the world that in this 40th anniversary year of the 1982 Argentine-British war over the Falklands, Beijing covets the islands and is continuing its decade-plus effort to engineer a new war over them that Argentina can win. But unlike 1982, when U.S. President Ronald…

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Argentina’s Pro-Beijing Deal With the Devil

February 9, 2022
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News Analysis Argentina President Alberto Fernández signed a deal with the devil at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Feb. 6. Argentina will join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), recognize China’s claims over democratic Taiwan, take another $23.7 billion in loans for Chinese infrastructure development, and again publicly threaten the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, along…

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