Politician Vinicio Castillo Seman alerted the Dominican government to be aware of not taking sides in the geopolitical and economic confrontation between the United States and China. Castillo is a politician with the Fuerza Nacional Progresista (FNP), an opposition party.
“It is not a secret that there is a serious confrontation, not only economic-commercial between China and the United States, but geopolitical and regional, which has a very sensitive ideological character behind it. China is the world power that is offering a lifeline of sorts to the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela, following the visit of Chinese delegation to that country last month. Inviting the President of the Dominican Republic together with the Presidents of Cuba and El Salvador to China, in this context could be interpreted as a position taken in that confrontation, which does not suit the country,” said the former legislator.
“The Dominican Republic as a sovereign and independent country must exercise foreign policy best suited to its interests, without getting involved or taking sides with regional ideological blocs that are being backed by China, whose governments are neither democratic nor respect the human rights of their people,” added Castillo Semán.
He warned: “The Dominican Republic is experiencing a very delicate moment today with high external indebtedness, with a fragile macroeconomic stability and with major political crises that may develop before the elections of 2020.”
He added: “Given a possible reelection effort of President Medina that could be linked to foreign assistance or financing or that actions taken by our government could be influenced from abroad is something that should be carefully guarded against,” he observed.
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1 November 2018
