BEIJING: China has agreed to pay for a new national stadium and library in El Salvador as part of an infrastructure package promised to the country after it switched allegiance from Taiwan to Beijing.

President Xi Jinping met with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Tuesday during the Central American leader’s first visit to Beijing since being sworn into office this summer.

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