Why does Latin America become more and more important in Latin America?

Some time ago, the United States originally wanted to convene the "backyard" Latin America's Kainea Summit, but unexpectedly became a "Tucao Conference" for the "Monroeism" in the United States.

▲ The dominant performance of the United States has been widely criticized by countries in Latin America. More and more Latin American countries say "no" to the United States. In Latin America and even globally, the influence of the United States is becoming increasingly minimal, and hegemonism is unpopular. (Comic | Liu Rui)

Latin American leaders are either missed directly or complained. Venezuelan President Madro is even more broken: "It is the US government's own stabbing American summit and messed it up."

The American hegemony kicked on the steel plate, and it showed that the Latin American countries were awakening collectively, and the United States had little time to do whatever they wanted.

▲ In May 2019, the Venezuela people broke into the Venezuela Embassy in Washington, holding a slogan "Don't Counterfeit" and "Don't In the United States".

Recently, the Special issue entitled "Sino -US Games and International Order" published by the International Research Center of the top think tank in Brazil, which contains more than 10 well -known Singapore scholars Ma Kaishuo, former Brazilian Minister of Defense Rongman, former Presidential Palace Strategic Affairs Secretary Karut The writings of experts, speaking about the current Sino -US game and Latin America. Special excerpts of high opinions to readers:

1. The United States misjudges the disorder of the geographical pattern

The Cold War thinking in the United States has not dissipated with the end of the Cold War. After the Cold War, although the United States dominated the single world, its foreign strategy was always confused. While seeking one after another after another, it gradually lost its rationality.

As China rises, the United States has become increasingly hysterical. Constantly selling hypocritical narratives such as "democracy against authority" around the world, after all, it is difficult to hide the true attempts of kidnapping allies, curbing China, and maintaining hegemony. In fact, the lack of long -term planning and target management of the United States' strategy to China has fallen into multiple misjudgments:

Misproducting: From the perspective of the United States, China intends to deprive the United States for prosperity, and China's development will inevitably erode American social wealth.

Reality: China regards the US economy as a positive asset and boost that it is conducive to its own development. If Biden can come up with the mutually beneficial cooperation initiative of China and the United States, China will readily accept it.

Misproducting 2: China's military rise is extremely fast and large in scale, which will eventually threaten the security of the United States.

Reality: China has learned the lessons of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, given priority to developing the economy, and always spending cautiously in military expenses. From a data point of view, China's national defense budget is only one -third of the United States, and there is also a significant gap in the number of arms and overseas deployment. It is better to say that China is willing to see the United States continue to maintain high military expenses because it will weaken the competitiveness of the United States in other key areas such as teaching and scientific research.

▲ In 2020, US defense spending ranked first in the world, exceeding the sum of the 11th countries that followed. (Source of data | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute expenditure database)

Misproducting three: China intends to challenge American values. The United States firmly believes that when China becomes the top economy, it will promote "universal value" like the United States itself.

Reality: Chinese civilization is the most inherently tough human civilization in the past two thousand years, and the Communist Party of China is rooted in Chinese civilization. The goal of governing is to revitalize the Chinese nation and have no interest in the ideological output of ideology like the US government.

▲ Former Chilean Ambassador to China, Herch Heine, pointed out in his speech that when U.S. government officials visited Latin America, they talked about China; and Chinese government officials were discussed when they visited Latin America.

Misproducting 4: The United States has a comprehensive advantage in China, just as the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Reality: The United States has not won the Cold War by single fighting alone. At that time, the United States had a global alliance network established with alliances and assistance, including the third world countries such as Brazil.

However, to this day, the United States has a division of wealth, social tears, and democratic landslides in the United States. The US dollar has also reduced from an effective alliance to a division tool. If it continues to curb China regardless of cost, the United States may only lose inside and outside.

2. The influence of China and the United States "Dongsheng and West" is concentrated in Latin America

Most Latin American countries may still use the United States as the primary strategic partner due to policy inertia or values. However, in the past 20 years, the United States has regarded Latin America as a tool for serving internal affairs, focusing on internal and external issues such as immigrants, anti -drug, etc., but rarely built on the issue of people's livelihood that Latin America really cares about.

▲ In May 2022, President Altar, Nicaragua, delivered a speech when attending the event, saying that he would not attend the American Summit, criticized the United States to recognize the "Latin America and Caribbean's owners", and pointed out that the United States needs to respect the Latin America.

In recent years, the United States has always hung "alert China's expansion in Latin America's influence", but it has not been able to get the corresponding chips in Latin America. The self -interest such as the United States is vividly reflected in the resolution of the Chinese 5G technology. There is no doubt that this is further eliminating the confidence and patience of the Latin American countries in the United States.

On the other hand, China has a solid government leadership, ambitious foreign policy, and huge and open markets. It is the most important pioneering object in Latin America. The China -Latinner's economy is highly complementary, while the United States and Latin America are competitors of commodity exports. Biden's political slogan of "near the shore outsourcing" may be just a piece of paper, and there are few responders.

Although China has invested in Latin America to concentrate in the fields of economy, trade, science and technology, etc., value concepts, military security, and humanistic exchanges are still to be accumulated. However, in the context of Russia and Ukraine's conflict today, Latin America's unique role in responding to global comprehensive challenges such as food, energy, and supply chain is prominent. As China has stepped up the layout, its influence in Latin America will continue to rise. Third, Latin America should avoid becoming a chess piece with confrontation between big powers

The Sino -US game has become more intense, and many developing countries have prepared for the world's top torrents in the world. Latin American countries are adjacent to the United States and have been regarded as their own spheres of influence and special geographical situation. How to choose a standing position is more worthy of pondering.

▲ Over the years, the United States has severely damaged the social livelihood, economic development, and human rights of the Latin American countries through "Monroeism".

If it is blind and beautiful, it is equivalent to self -sacrifice, and it is difficult to get financial recovery, people's livelihood relief, development and transformation, etc. from selfish Americans; A series of risks, such as the singleization of cooperation and cooperation.

For Latin America, only by strengthening the connection between the majority of between China and the United States, can we have the confidence in the multilateral agenda to strive for greater the right to speak and reduce the negative spillover effect of the major power against regional development.

▲ In recent years, with the booming economic development of the Latin American countries, the self -consciousness of various countries has been awakening, and Latin America is ushered in the "awakening age".

【Source】 Chaoyang Shaoxia

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