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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