The president-elect appears to have settled on the Florida senator, who has taken hard-line positions on China, Iran and Venezuela, to be the nation’s top diplomat.
True. I hope you are right. It feels like China and Russia never rock the boat much, so I’ve not had much hope for them. Also Mexico has been very good lately. They just sent a ton of oil.
China and Russia have been somewhat disappointing, but I have been pleasantly surprised with how much support they have received from Latin America.
China’s foreign policy has been so good for making themselves indispensable to the global economy, but at the expense of doing cool shit to counter the west.
I think Xi personally is very interested in good relations with Latin America and Africa. He used to grant a lot of loans for Argentina before Milei got elected. Now it seems Xi is very interested in good relations with Brazil (Huge Market, Protectionist Economy, the CPC wants closer relations with the Workers’ Party, huge Asian Population and Influence, closer military ties with Chinese troops training with Brazilian troops and US troops in there), theres going to be the G20 meeting in Rio, and it seems Xi really wants to talk with Lula.
I remember that the closest the US came to overthrowing the Venezuelan government (apart from the 2002 coup, which did remove Chávez from power, but there was a counter-coup a few days later) was in 2019. Russia sent some soldiers and warships to help Maduro, then Trump was defeated by Joe Biden. Initially, Biden decided to follow an agreement that Spain and Norway were making, then Colombia and Brazil joined in, which would guarantee that the US would remove most of the sanctions against Venezuela, which lasted until 2024. The US returned with the sanctions, except for the oil ones. Biden also didn’t pay for the repair of Venezuela’s oil extraction industry, as he had promised.
True. I hope you are right. It feels like China and Russia never rock the boat much, so I’ve not had much hope for them. Also Mexico has been very good lately. They just sent a ton of oil.
China and Russia have been somewhat disappointing, but I have been pleasantly surprised with how much support they have received from Latin America.
China’s foreign policy has been so good for making themselves indispensable to the global economy, but at the expense of doing cool shit to counter the west.
I think Xi personally is very interested in good relations with Latin America and Africa. He used to grant a lot of loans for Argentina before Milei got elected. Now it seems Xi is very interested in good relations with Brazil (Huge Market, Protectionist Economy, the CPC wants closer relations with the Workers’ Party, huge Asian Population and Influence, closer military ties with Chinese troops training with Brazilian troops and US troops in there), theres going to be the G20 meeting in Rio, and it seems Xi really wants to talk with Lula.
I remember that the closest the US came to overthrowing the Venezuelan government (apart from the 2002 coup, which did remove Chávez from power, but there was a counter-coup a few days later) was in 2019. Russia sent some soldiers and warships to help Maduro, then Trump was defeated by Joe Biden. Initially, Biden decided to follow an agreement that Spain and Norway were making, then Colombia and Brazil joined in, which would guarantee that the US would remove most of the sanctions against Venezuela, which lasted until 2024. The US returned with the sanctions, except for the oil ones. Biden also didn’t pay for the repair of Venezuela’s oil extraction industry, as he had promised.