Rubio has to balance aggressive Trump policies with Latin America's willingness to cooperate. The Panama Canal will be contentious.
Mexico announced plans to curb imports from China across key industries including automobiles, aerospace technology, and textiles. Peru launched investigations into alleged Chinese
While Rubio’s anti-China rhetoric aligns with Washington’s broader geopolitical goals, the tools at his disposal are insufficient to match Beijing’s economic engagement.
So Trump will likely get his way in more cases than not. But he shouldn’t celebrate just yet, because the short-term payoff of strong-arming Latin America will come at the long-term cost of accelerating the region’s shift toward China and increasing its instability. The latter tends, sooner or later, to boomerang back into the United States.
LSE IDEAS analyse China’s growing presence in Latin America concerning trade, diplomacy, and strategic influence
one of the U.S.'s closest allies in Latin America, describing it as “vital” for national security. But his gripe is more with U.S. rival China, which he says is “operating” a critical waterway that serves as a transit point for almost 5% of the ...
Latin American leaders don’t like submitting to the United States in imperial mode. They also have an alternative.
It has always surprised me, wrote the 20th-century Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz, that in a world of relations as hard as that of the
MEXICO CITY — A busy shelter for migrants in southern Mexico has been left without a doctor. A program to provide mental health support for LGBTQ+ youth fleeing Venezuela was disbanded. In Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Guatemala, so-called “Safe Mobility Offices” where migrants can apply to enter the U.S. legally have shuttered.
The unprecedented pause and potential elimination of many U.S. foreign assistance programs, announced in President Trump’s executive order “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” has caused shock waves worldwide.