Instapundit - Blog Archive COLD WAR II: A New Chinese Megaport in South America Is Rattling the U.S.

Instapundit  -  China is already the top trade partner for most of South America.

In this serene town on South America’s Pacific coast, China is building a megaport that could challenge U.S. influence in a resource-rich region that Washington has long considered its backyard.

The Chancay deep-water port, rising here among pelicans and fishermen in small wooden boats, is important enough to Beijing that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to inaugurate it at the end of the year in his first trip to the continent since the pandemic.China is already the top trade partner for most of South America.

Previously: “Somebody from a developing country said to me, ‘what we get from China is an airport. What we get from the United States is a lecture.'” - Stephen Green