According to Argentine media TN TV, after Argentine President Millay met with Trump on the 14th, Millay was considering weakening cooperation with China, especially in the fields of science and technology, aerospace and power. He tried to use this in exchange for Trump's financial support.
According to the report, Milay is planning to shut down a deep-air probe station built by China in Argentina. China's cooperation with the probe was signed in 2012, the agreement stipulates that China can operate on this land for 50 years, and now just 13 years Milay wants to break the deal.In addition, Argentina also wants to freeze the cooperation project with China in the field of power in the province of St. Cruz, saying that it is China's hydroelectric power plant built for Argentina, if Argentina does not want to cooperate completely can, as long as you get out of the bankruptcy money, there is no big impact on China.
But this deep-air station is not common, it is one of the three deep-air stations of China's deep-air monitoring network, and is China's first and only overseas deep-air monitoring station, which was put into operation in 2017 and built 35m deep-air monitoring equipment with three-frequency monitoring capabilities in the S-band, X-band and Ka-band. In 2020, the importance of providing monitoring for China's exploration of Mars "Skype One" is extraordinary. If Argentina shuts down this facility, it will have an impact on China's space development, especially deep-air exploration.
Of course, Argentine officials have not confirmed this news yet, but with Milei's consistent behavior, the possibility of this matter is not small. After all, this is not the first time Millais has "repeatedly jumped" between China and the United States. Milei's relationship with Trump is extraordinary. When he visited the United States a few days ago, he specially sent Trump a framed letter written by himself nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. This gift can be described as being sent to Trump's heart. Nowadays, the confrontation between China and the United States is very fierce. It doesn't seem surprising that Argentina chose a side station and gave Trump another big gift by closing China's deep space exploration station.
Only, China on this exploration station is signed a contract, if Argentina unilaterally tear the contract, China has absolutely reason and means to counter. First is soybeans trade, before China stopped purchasing U.S. soybeans, let Argentina seize the opportunity, with one hand "cancellation of soybeans export prepaid tax", received China's order of 1.3 million tons, a breath consumed 70% of Argentina's soybeans inventory for sale.
After all, soybeans are Argentina's important foreign-earning industry. If you don't want such a large sum of rice, major soybean producing countries such as Brazil are all eager to take over orders.
Secondly, China-Arab economic and trade cooperation goes far beyond soybeans, including Argentina's beef, lithium mines, etc. China is a big customer. If China-Arab trade is affected for a deep space exploration station, Milei, as an "economist", whether this account is cost-effective or not should be calculated.
As for if this deep space station is really closed by Argentina, we are not without a backup plan. As early as 2023, China and Brazil cooperated in aerospace, especially deep space exploration. The "Radio Telescope" project built by China and Brazil in South America is used to study dark matter. The two sides also mentioned cooperation in deep space exploration. As long as Argentina dares to close it, China can completely build a new deep space station in Brazil and want to use a deep space station to control China. Clearly a little naive.
In fact, if Milero really did this, he was probably "forced" by Trump during the conversation. After all, Argentina had just received such a large soybean order from China. In Trump's eyes, this should have been from the United States. When China did not buy U.S. soybeans, Argentina accepted China's large orders by "eliminating withholding taxes on soybean exports." In Trump's view, it was a betrayal and should be beaten. If Millay does not follow Trump's instructions, who knows whether the United States will attack Argentina? Therefore, in order to appease the "Understanding King", Millay had to make some remarks.
The next step depends on the development of the situation. If Millais is really determined to make trouble with China's deep space exploration station, then he must consider the consequences. It is okay to "maintain neutrality" between China and the United States, but if he wants to "repeatedly jump", he must consider the consequences.