Latin America and the Caribbean is partnering with China on multi-billion dollar development projects and while turning down assistance offered by the United States.

21 of 31 countries of the region, both friends and foes of Washington alike, have joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to the dismay of U.S. lawmakers. Congressional Representative Lisa McClain sought an explanation for the phenomenon at this week’s House Armed Services Committee hearing on National Security Challenges and Military Activity in North and South America.

“As far as I can tell, and I may be incorrect, but there seems to be little interest by the underdeveloped nations to utilize the U.S. Build Act over China. Why do you think these nations have been so hesitant to utilize the U.S. to help fund their initiatives?”

The People’s Republic of China invested 72 billion dollars over a five year period (2017-2021) in Latin America and the Caribbean:

"It’s off the charts and I can read a couple of the projects, the most concerning projects that I have are the 6 billion and projects specifically near the Panama Canal. And I look at the strategic lines of communication; Panama Canal and the Strait of Magellan. But just to highlight a couple of the projects, the nuclear power plant in Argentina, 7.9 billion; the highway in Jamaica, 5.6 billion; the energy refinery in Cuba, 5 billion; the highway in Peru, 4 billion; energy dam in Argentina, 4 billion; the Metro in Colombia, 3.9 billion; the freight railway in Argentina, 3 billion. These are not small projects that they’re putting in this region. This region is rich in resources.”

It’s not only global south development and infrastructure that has sent U.S. lawmakers into a panic. China’s space mission, military capacity, cyber capabilities, and close relationship with a set of Latin American countries were also discussed as cause for concern for Washington, which is now troubled over its waning influence throughout the Americas.

General Richardson also noted that U.S. allies have been strengthening cooperation with Russia, saying, “Recent visits between the presidents of Brazil and Argentina with Putin in Russia demonstrate a concerning potential broadening of Russian ties in the region” in addition to the recent visits by a high-level Russian delegation to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

On the military front, the SOUTHCOM Commander noted Russian defense and intelligence cooperation with Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela as an immediate concern for the United States.

kawsachunnews.com/latin-america-is-rejecting-u-s-assistance

neutrality >

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good. f*** the us.

French and usa intelligence are probably behind the recent coups in Africa to try and destabilize their ongoing developments with China. new guaido clones incoming

Ooookay maybe we installed a couple of mass-murdering puppet dictators to divert their resources to our corporate sponsors, but that is no excuse for aligning with our enemies

Dog bless america

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Gonna liberate the planet

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You don't even Ike Iran you bandwagoning cuz they have a opportunity to win now lol

I ❤ Iran

None of yall ever even been there

I've been to Iran, Russia and China (Guangzhou airport if that counts)

Brother you have no idea.
The Ayatollah ❤ Putin so much that hizbullahis are starting to call Putin the Hidden Imam "reappeared"

What is actually the purpose of China investing this much in foreign countries?

China officially operates on the basis of mutual beneficence and moderate prosperity, meaning they try to act in ways where everybody comes away winning without being overly greedy about it.

the Machiavellian reading is that china is investing in affordable non debt-trap infrastructure to further strengthen china's position as a superpower while simultaneously weakening the west and financial capital's stranglehold on "developing" countries' development.

imo it's a really smart and generally positive move, being able to help fellow third world countries escape the hellish predatory loans of orgs like the IMF by actually helping infrastructure to be built and run at cost - instead of a constant process of infrastructure being in the process of being built and therefore continuously extracting resources from the prey countries - while continuing their advances to create a multipolar world.

fun fact china just invited the US to also join belt and road last week but instead the US instead chose to respond with their "Blue Dot Network" certification to "entice investors" cuz of course we can't have high speed rail or any half decent infrastructure

Just a different tactic to get them to do business with em and build goodwill

They don't have the same international financial institutions, military power, economic, political and soft power as the US so this how they persuade em

US: do business with us or we coup you

China: here's a train now you wanna do business with us?

I don't think the first and second paragraph contradict eachother tbh

yea but the average china bad brain can't comprehend china just doing s*** for generally beneficial reasons so i felt like it was necessary to address that perspective

Lolll

21 of 31 countries of the region, both friends and foes of Washington alike, have joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to the dismay of U.S. lawmakers.

What a coincidence!

21 of 31 Latin American countries is the same amount that the U.S. has invaded, in which they:

• did "a little harmless bombing" that killed thousands of innocent civilians
• stripped them of natural resources that would have been valuable exports for the country's economy
• hired mercernary death squads to intimidate and gun down thousands of innocent civilians
• assassinated democratic leaders, including killing one by flying a plane into their office building on September 11
• installed U.S.-friendly dictators
• hired planes to drop pro-US intallation propaganda leaflets by the millions

But none of that explains why they won't support our global building project instead of China's 🤔

Wait a minute... Could Russia somehow be behind this decision?! 😨

Whoops, missed a word there silly:

A couple dozen*

Doesn't really matter though. 2? 12? 21? It's all the same

exactly its only contradictory to ppl who dont realize the congruence between "everybody comes away winning" and "weakening the west and financial capital's stranglehold on developing countries"

Really makes you think

50 years of US influence got em where they're at now.

Might as well see how China does it lmao.

I mean the world now operates to choose to be funded by Russia, America, or China now