A Chinese satellite tracking station being built in the south of Argentina that critics fear could serve as cover for a military base is emerging as a key foreign policy test for Mauricio Macri, Argentina’s new centre-right president.
The satellite base in remote Patagonia is one of a number of secretive Sino-Argentine deals signed by the populist Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that her successor vowed to review on concerns that it could be used to collect sensitive military information from the US.
But following its review, the government has tried to assuage critics by insisting the base is “exclusively for civil use”.
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