Alberto Fujimori¡¯s first trip to Beijing 35 years ago helped turn Peru toward China, anticipating a broader Latin American realignment that Washington is still struggling to reverse.
Now his daughter Keiko Fujimori, who narrowly won last month¡¯s presidential election in Peru, will have to navigate that legacy as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to reassert U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
The U.S.-educated Keiko Fujimori was elected with market-friendly plans and a tough-on-crime platform that are set to bring the Andean nation closer to Washington. But she also seems willing to protect trade ties with Beijing, rejecting ¡°automatic alignment with any power¡± and calling for a ¡°strategically balanced¡± position between China and the U.S.
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