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How US incompetence empowers China in Latin America

While the Trump administration is bombing, cutting aid and imposing tariffs, Beijing has been quietly forging trade ties all over the region.
One of China’s most important meetings begins Monday, as President Xi Jinping and other party elites gather in Beijing to map ...
The 2025 International Youth Poetry Festival (Special Session for China-Latin American Countries) took place in Xi'an, Shangluo and Beijing, from Sept 14 to 20. A total of 40 poets from 15 Latin ...
Several major economic and trade projects were signed in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Friday as part of the Eighth Dialogue between the Civilizations of China and the Latin American and Caribbean region ...
When the president of the world’s largest economy says he'll implement new tariffs on certain goods and Latin American countries—some as high as 50%, as in the case of Brazil—and your own economy ...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025 (pool photo via AP). Click to share on Twitter ...
Like the United States, China fields two fifth-generation warplanes. Its Chengdu J-20 is an air superiority fighter, meant to rival the US-made F-22 Raptor. It has also designed a multirole ...
Argentina has achieved a new production record of 816,144 barrels of crude oil per day in August 2025, largely due to the Vaca Muerta shale formation, securing its position as Latin America's ...
On Sept. 30, Philadelphia’s Office of Immigrant Affairs plans to hoist the red flag emblazoned with the star of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in front of city hall to celebrate the anniversary of ...
The 119th Congress has once again demonstrated its commitment to safeguarding America’s national security from Beijing’s influence. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party announced ...
A great unanswered question of the second Trump administration has been how its outright rejection of the existing global order would affect China’s international strategy. U.S. Secretary of State ...