Bolton Speaks to El Salvador President-Elect About ‘Predatory’ China

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton arrives to address reporters as the Trump administration announces economic sanctions against Venezuela and the Venezuelan state owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA) during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. on Jan. 28, 2019. Jim Young/Reuters

SAN SALVADOR—El Salvador’s President-elect Nayib Bukele spoke by phone on Feb. 13 with U.S. National Security advisor John Bolton, who said he requested cooperation to counteract what he called the “predatory” expansion of China.

Bukele, the first candidate not from the poor Central American country’s two civil war-era parties to win a presidential election in a generation, said that his government would be a strong U.S. partner to the United States.