China NDRC Vice Chairman Zhou Haibing Meets Peru’s Energy and Mines Minister

The meeting signals that Beijing is keeping its resource diplomacy with Latin America at the ministerial level, with energy, mining and investment framed as a single package rather than separate tracks. Peru's copper and lithium sit at the center of China's supply-chain diversification, so this is less about a single project than about keeping the policy channel open. What matters next is whether the talks translate into concrete investment commitments or remain consultative, particularly given Peru's shifting domestic politics around resource permitting.