Leaders in contact

<p>Foto de familia durante la cumbre de la APEC en Lima, Perú, el 16 de noviembre de 2024 - REUTERS/LEAH MILLIS&nbsp;</p>
Family photo during the APEC summit in Lima, Peru, November 16, 2024 - REUTERS/LEAH MILLIS
Meetings and international summits have the value they have, normally the value we want to give them according to each one's point of view and interests, and the results are usually much more useful and varied than what is announced in official communiqués and in the leaders' appearances before the media

These appearances are becoming increasingly synthetic, reduced, controlled and absurdly accepted by professionals and the media. The problem is the conditioning dependence of the media.  

In recent days, several events have coincided with each other and show that there are ideological interests that take precedence over the objectives for the citizens of each country.  

For example, the Ibero-American Summit in Ecuador was poorly attended by Latin American leaders because many were attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Peru and the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.  

King Felipe VI represents Spain alone due to the absence of President of the Government Pedro Sánchez, who did travel to the climate summit in Azerbaijan where he assured that climate change is responsible for the more than 220 deaths in Spain due to the DANA. We should point to the lack of investment in watercourses, the cleaning of mountains and ravines, the radical environmentalism that causes murderous rubbish when it rains intensely as it has done all our lives without these devastating consequences. And the nefarious management of warnings and preventive measures. All the blame for climate change without admitting mistakes as serious as those we have suffered. Of course we must take great care of nature, but human management is very responsible. 

In these international meetings, in Peru, US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping coincided, at a time when the next tenant of the White House will be Donald Trump.  

The confrontation between the United States and China has largely conditioned the economic, commercial and technological situation in recent years.  

Three months ago, the tension eased following a visit to China by the US national security chief. The presence of the Chinese leader at these summits is also a demonstration of China's influence in Latin America, but there is a palpable sense of unease about the decisions that Donald Trump may take from January onwards. 

What the international leaders, and in this case the two great powers, may have discussed and agreed among themselves will become clear in the coming weeks.