China’s Xi Calls for ‘Equal, Multipolar World’ as He Meets Uruguay Leader

Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, February 3, 2026. JESSICA LEE/Pool via REUTERS

China and Uruguay should work together to advance an “equal and orderly multipolar world”, President Xi Jinping told his counterpart Yamandu Orsi on Tuesday, as their nations signed up to cooperate in areas from trade to the environment.

Orsi’s visit is the first by a South American leader to the Chinese capital since the United States invaded Venezuela in January and captured then President Nicolas Maduro in a raid.

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