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09QUITO178 | 2009-03-12 14:56 | 2011-04-16 20:30 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Quito |
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SUBJECT: HIGH-LEVEL CHINESE VISIT HIGHLIGHTS CLOSER TIES
REF: A. GUAYAQUIL 52
¶B. BEIJING 518
¶C. QUITO 15
¶D. 08 QUITO 1127
¶E. 08 QUITO 1100
¶F. 07 QUITO 764
¶G. 07 QUITO 683
Classified By: Ambassador Heather M. Hodges for Reasons 1.4 (b&d)
¶1. (C) Summary: The Ambassador met privately with Chinese
Ambassador Cai Runguo on February 27 to discuss the February
13 visit by Vice Prime Minister Hui Liangyu in Ecuador, as
well as the Ecuador-China relationship more generally.
Ambassador Cai downplayed the importance of the visit, and
was generally reluctant to disclose sensitive information.
Nonetheless, Hui's visit was the highest-level official visit
in recent memory, and followed visits by Politbureau Standing
Committee member Li Changchun in March 2007, President
Correa's trip to China in November 2007, and recent
negotiations for increased Chinese investment in Ecuador.
Ambassador Cai confirmed that the new travel document policy
for Chinese tourists coming to Ecuador has been fully
implemented and suggested that Chinese migration has slowed.
End Summary.
HIGH-LEVEL VISIT BRINGS PROMISES OF FINANCING
¶2. (U) Vice Prime Minister Hui Liangyu and Vice Foreign
Minister Song Tao met with President Correa, Vice President
Moreno and Foreign Minister Falconi on February 13 in Quito.
Hui and Song stopped in Quito and then the Galapagos as part
of a February 7-19 trip to Argentina, Ecuador, Barbados, and
the Bahamas. Ambassador Cai said that the Chinese signed
four agreements with the GOE, that included a 30 million
Chinese Yuan (CNY) (USD 4.43 million) grant of economic and
technical assistance, a CNY 20 million (USD 2.92 million)
no-interest line of credit to the GOE, a donation of one
mammogram machine and two other x-ray machines, and an
agreement to invest USD $18 million in the Quitumbe Terminal
(construction of a bus station in the south of Quito, delayed
for approximately three years).
¶3. (SBU) Hui announced during his visit that the Chinese
government is interested in financing large infrastructure
projects in Ecuador, and mentioned the construction project
of a new refinery on the coast of Manabi province (Ref G).
However, Ambassador Cai told the Ambassador that the two
governments specifically discussed Chinese investment in the
Coca-Codo-Sinclaire (CCS) hydroelectric project, and did not
mention any other potential project negotiations. The CCS
project, located in Napo province, will generate an estimated
1,500 megawatts of electricity, making it the largest
infrastructure project in the country. Ambassador Cai had
announced publicly on February 25 that the Chinese Ex-Im Bank
was ready to offer up to $1.7 billion to finance the project,
or 85% of the total cost ($2 billion), but that the "process
of negotiation of conditions had just started, and will
include guarantees, interest rates and payment of the
credit." Cai told the Ambassador that two Chinese companies,
as well as an Iranian company (Farab) and an Italian company
(Impregilo), had expressed interest in the project, but no
commitments had been made. However, during a ceremony on
March 3, sponsored by Coca-Codo-Sinclaire, and in the
presence of the Coordinating Minister of Strategic Sections
Galo Borja, only two companies presented their bids, both
Chinese -- Sinohydro-Andes Joint Venture and Sino-Ecuador.
VISIT NOT SIGNIFICANT?
¶4. (U) Vice Prime Minister Hui said during his visit that
bilateral relations, established in 1980, had improved after
President Correa's November 2007 visit to Beijing, and that
"both sides are satisfied with the development of the
bilateral ties because the two countries do not have
political pressures and conflicts of interest."
¶5. (C) The visit by Vice Prime Minister Hui is the
highest-level official visit by China to Ecuador in the last
ten years. However, Ambassador Cai described the agreements
as "insignificant" and that the total value of the
cooperation was fairly small. He even described the trip by
Hui as less politically significant than the two-day visit in
March 2007 by Li Changchun, Senior Member of the Standing
Committee of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party, who
stopped in Ecuador as part of a tour through Latin America.
Also, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping separately visited
Mexico, Jamaica, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil on February
8-22, 2009.
INCREASED TRADE
¶6. (C) Despite Ambassador Cai's downplaying of the visit,
Ecuador's economic ties to China are growing fast. According
to the Ecuadorian Central Bank, Chinese bilateral trade
volume with Ecuador increased to a record $1.85 billion in
2008, up from $1.06 billion in 2007, or approximately by 75%.
However, while Ecuador increased its imports by
approximately $441 million (still mostly electronics, steel,
vehicles and machinery), Ecuadorian exports to China went up
by approximately $346 million, primarly in crude oil. In
fact, crude oil now represents 88% of Ecuador's exports to
China. The trade balance continues to favor China heavily.
Ecuadorian Vice President Moreno said during the visit that
"Ecuador plans to diversify the exports of its bananas,
flowers, cacao and other products to China on favorable
conditions." Ambassador Cai complained privately to the
Ambassador that the GOE continues to push the sale of bananas
to China, but that China already has sufficient supply from
Taiwan and the Philippines. Conversely, Ecuadorian trade
officials privately complain about the sharp increase in
imports from China, with several officials noting that
rigorous certification requirements and a trade safeguard
were necessary in large measure because of imports from
China. Moreno also announced during Minister Hui's visit
that Ecuadorian trade offices will soon be established in the
Chinese cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou to further expand
trade.
¶7. (C) The Chinese MFA website states that as of November
2007, Ecuador was the home of more Chinese investment than
any other Latin American country. Cai noted that copper and
crude oil were better investment options for China. He said
that two Chinese companies pursued mine exploration and
exploitation in Ecuador, and that Andes Petroleum (a joint
venture between the two Chinese petroleum companies, China
National Petroleum Corp. and China Petroleum and Chemical
Corp, or Sinopec) was looking at its investment (it is not
clear what Cai meant by this). Andes Petroleum signed a
one-year transitory contract in August 2008, the first of the
foreign oil companies to sign a new contract after the GOE,
first under the Palacio Administration, and now under the
Correa Administration, imposed a heavy windfall oil income
surcharge, in part to force the companies to renegotiate
contracts that were more favorable to the government (Ref F).
(Andes, interestingly, lost heavily when the GOE seized the
assets of U.S. oil company Occidental Petroleum, since it had
bought a 40% share of Oxy's block shortly before the assets
were seized.)
TOURIST TRAVEL DOCUMENT FULLY IMPLEMENTED
¶8. (C) Ambassador Cai confirmed that the GOE has implemented
its tourist travel document policy (Refs D and E) since mid
December 2008, and that there has been a slowing of Chinese
migration into Ecuador. Indeed, statistics from the
Ecuadorian Immigration Police show that during the period of
December 10, 2008 through January 22, 2009, 675 Chinese have
entered Ecuador while 1,184 Chinese nationals exited.
However, it is not clear whether the slowing of migration
into Ecuador was due to China's refusal to allow any Chinese
national to depart for Ecuador without a visa during the mid
weeks of December 2008, or whether the new document policy is
having some effect. Even if the policy has worked to slow
the flow of migration, it won't be long before the Chinese
smugglers learn how to duplicate the travel document.
¶9. (SBU) The flow of Chinese nationals to the U.S., however,
has not subsided. DHS/ICE Quito is notified almost on a
weekly basis regarding Chinese nationals coming from Ecuador
who were intercepted in Panama or another Central American
country traveling with Japanese or Korean passports. The
receiving country's immigration authorities return the
migrants to Ecuador and notifies the Ecuadorian National
Police (ENP) at either Guayaquil or Quito airport. According
to the ENP, the migrants cannot be prosecuted as they did not
use the fraudulent passports to gain entry into Ecuador. The
Panamanians also cannot prosecute since the Chinese do not
apply for admission into Panama and are merely transiting to
another country.
¶10. (C) When asked if the Chinese Embassy has information
that could be useful in seizing human smuggling or
counterfeit operators, the Chinese Ambassador said that they
have information, but that "it is not official." The Embassy
will follow up on a working level with our Chinese
counterparts to see if some sort of cooperative effort or
operation against the smugglers and/or counterfeiters might
be possible.
NO INTEREST IN MANTA
¶11. (C) The Ambassador inquired about Chinese interest in
Manta, either in investment or administration of the airport.
Ambassador Cai replied that President Correa had expressed
interest in Chinese investment to convert the Manta airport
and its facilities into an international airport. However,
he said that the number of passengers and flights into and
out of Manta would never warrant classifying the airport as
"international." He added that there were no Chinese
companies interested in investing in Manta, nor was the
Chinese government interested in pursuing any agreement on
the Manta airport. The Ambassador explained that during
Embassy discussions with the GOE regarding the withdrawal of
the Forward Operating Location from Manta, the Ecuadorian Air
Force was surprised to learn the extent to which the USG paid
for the operations and maintenance at the airport.
¶12. (C) Ambassador Cai noted that a representative from Hong
Kong based Hutchison-Whampoa came from Panama to discuss the
concessionary agreement upgrading the port of Manta with the
GOE. The Hutchinson representative privately had told Cai
that Hutchison would leave, but thereafter met with Correa.
On February 27, Hutchison made an official announcement that
it would leave Ecuador (Ref A). During his February 28
Saturday morning address, President Correa mentioned his
prior meeting with Hutchison's representative mocking him as
a "typical gringo (Note: the representative is actually
British) who thinks that we (Ecuador) are a colony." Correa
was particularly angry with the CEO's prior public comment
that it was not possible for anyone to invest $500 million
during an international economic crisis. Correa said that
"if Hutchison is not able to fulfill its obligations, it
should leave." Hutchison was to invest $578 million over 30
years, with the hope of transforming Manta into one of South
America's largest ports and China's gateway to the Americas.
NO MONEY FOR RADARS
¶13. (C) Ambassador Cai said that the latest in Ecuador's
negotiation to purchase surveillance radars from the China
Electronics Technology Corporation (CETC) for its northern
border region was that the "Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) does
not have sufficient funds to purchase the radars," and added
that the GOE had refused an offer of financing.
Interestingly, the deputy FAE commander told Embassy
officials in November 2008 that the FAE had allocated $21
million from the 2008 budget for the radars, that the FAE
needed to commit the funds before the end of the year, and
that the remaining funds to complete the radar purchase would
come out of the 2009 and 2010 budgets. CETC entered into the
bidding process after the original bid submission deadline
with an offer to sell two long-range, two mid-range, and two
short-range surveillance radars for $50 million,
under-bidding Northrup Grumman and other bidders by $20
million. President Correa authorized the purchase of the
radars on March 6, providing the FAE the funds necessary for
a first payment. However, the local Northrup Grumman
representative privately told the Embassy that the bid was
declared vacant and that a commission will be formed by the
Defense Ministry to determine next steps. He confirmed press
reports that the transaction was halted because the CETC
radars did not meet the specification requirements.
COMMENT
¶14. (C) Whatever Ambassador Cai's reasons for downplaying the
visit by Vice Premier Hui, the visit was apparently
productive. China's investmQt in Ecuador and the rapidly
increasing bilateral trade makes the relationship an
important one for Ecuador. As an example, President Correa
included the Chinese Ambassador in a December 30,2008, New
Year's luncheon for ambassadors of six countries he referred
to as a new "strategic alliance" (Ref C). The GOE often
refers to China as a source of investment, as it has done
repeatedly in regard to the Manta airport and Manta-Manaus
link. Chinese businesses have faced some of the same
tribulations that investors from other countries have faced,
be it investment losses or barriers to their exports to
Ecuador. Ambassador Cai privately admitted that the GOE often
requests assistance from the GOC, but said that the GOE's
public claims of Chinese assistance are often false.
HODGES
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