I’m just back from Central Asia where I spent a fortnight travelling through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and ...
Several Latin American countries’ trade deficits with China widened, and some mulled over trade measures to stem the surge in ...
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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.
Panama President José Raúl Mulino says someone at the U.S. Embassy has been threatening to cancel the visas of Panamanian ...
This article first appeared in ProBox on May 27, 2025. An edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. In recent years, the People's Republic of China ...
China's growing presence in the Western Hemisphere is a threat to the United States, the U.S. State Department has told Newsweek in unusually stark comments. America's top diplomat, Secretary of State ...
Amid the fanfare of this last month’s China-CELAC Summit, few took notice of China’s high-stake military and mining deals with Nicaragua. Since the 2021 reestablishment of diplomatic ties, the ...
China's military alliance with Russia and North Korea poses threats beyond warfare as central banks stockpile gold to undermine the U.S. dollar's dominance.
China’s restrictions are also seen as a response to Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” on Chinese goods announced in April. After ...
Imagine waking up tomorrow and your phone has no signal. Your smart home isn’t working. Your Ring camera is offline. You get in your car, but your GPS won’t route. Worse, every traffic light in town ...
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and China's Premier Li Qiang attend a bilateral meeting, ahead of the BRICS summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 5, 2025. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares In July, ...