President Javier Milei met with incoming US secretary of state Marco Rubio, soon to be the United States’ top diplomat, at a black-tie gala in Washington on Monday night. Argentina’s head of state dressed up to the nines for the Starlight Gala, staged to mark the inauguration of Donald Trump as the United States’ 47th president.

While Rubio’s anti-China rhetoric aligns with Washington’s broader geopolitical goals, the tools at his disposal are insufficient to match Beijing’s economic engagement.

Milei was in an ebullient mood, cheered on by an appreciative Davos audience. He has some justification for a victory lap after delivering Argentina’s first fiscal surplus since 2009 and wrangling monthly inflation to under 3% — from over 25% when he took office in late 2023.

Argentina's President Javier Milei was among the stacked line ... ball in Northwest D.C. The honorary chairs include Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas and Bernardo Moreno of ...

President-elect Donald Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and conservative world leaders such as Argentine President Javier Milei and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni to the inauguration. Xi is sending his vice president as his representative.

All 99 senators voted in favor of Rubio, including Rubio himself. The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio as secretary of state on Monday, making him the first confirmed member of ...

(Reuters) As Argentine President Javier Milei prepares to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration ... “Milei will be positioned near Trump and key figures such as Elon Musk and Marco Rubio, solidifying a connection that no other regional leader has achieved ...

Confirmations don’t come easier than this. The Senate approved the nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to be secretary of state 99-0 Monday, hours after President Trump took the oath of ...

President-elect Donald Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and conservative world leaders such as Argentine President Javier Milei and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni to the inauguration. Xi sent his vice president as his representative.

But among the conservatives of color who surround Trump, the moment was an endorsement of their biggest hopes, years in the making. “This room was impossible twenty years ago,” Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.

Little more than a year after storming to the presidency with a mandate to rip up the rule book and do whatever was needed to turn Argentina around, Javier Milei feels vindicated in his tear-it-down approach to governing.

The ideological affinity between Argentina’s Javier Milei and the U.S. president could be crucial to the bilateral relations between the countries.