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China Is Challenging The US In Central America, And Washington Can't Do Anything


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in Central America late last week when he criticized China’s rising influence there by questioning the intentions behind its investment activity.
This prompted the country’s media to angrily respond earlier this week and lambast the US for trying to “drive a wedge” into Sino-Latin American relations.

上週末,美國國務卿邁克·龐培(Mike Pompeo)在中美洲批評其投資活動背後的意圖,批評中國在那裡的影響力日益增強。
這促使該國媒體本週早些時候憤怒地回應,譴責美國試圖“楔入”中拉關係





Washington is worried that Central America is slipping out of its hegemonic control after tiny El Salvador broke ties with Taiwan in August and recognized Beijing as China’s legitimate government in exchange for economic support, which some observers feared could catalyze a chain reaction in this part of the world where the self-proclaimed country counts a handful of its dwindling supporters.

From the US’ perspective, China’s rising economic influence is clearly having political consequences that might one day manifest themselves in these countries gradually turning away from Washington like a few of them have recently done with Taipei, which could lead to the US losing its unipolar control over the region that it condescendingly regards as its “backyard”. Even Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez hinted at what he called the “opportunity” that China’s growing diplomatic role in the region could provide despite he himself having remained in power up until now after winning a disputed election late last year that was controversially endorsed by the US.


華盛頓擔心中美洲在八月與台灣斷絕關係後, 正在擺脫霸權控制 ,並承認北京是中國的合法政府,以換取經濟支持,一些觀察家擔心這可能會催化這一部分的連鎖反應。這個自稱為國家的少數幾個日益減少的支持者的世界。
從美國的角度來看, 中國崛起的經濟影響顯然具有政治後果,有朝一日可能會在這些國家逐漸遠離華盛頓,就像其中一些人最近在台北做的那樣,這可能導緻美國失去其單極控制權在該地區,它居高臨下地將其視為“後院”。 甚至洪都拉斯總統胡安·奧蘭多·埃爾南德斯也暗示了他所謂的“機會”,即中國在該地區日益增強的外交作用可以提供,儘管他在去年年底贏得有爭議的大選後遭到有爭議的選舉後仍然保持執政狀態。 。


薩爾瓦多外交部長卡洛斯卡斯塔內達(左)於2018年8月21日在北京與中國外交部長王毅握手


El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Carlos Castaneda (L) shakes hands with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on August 21, 2018
Speaking of “opportunities”, a new one has suddenly materialized after Trump threatened to curtail the aid that his government was giving to the three “Northern Triangle” countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador as part of the so-called “Alliance for Prosperity” after they failed to stop thousands of their citizens from participating in the latest Caravan Crisis, which provides the perfect pretext for China to economically intervene in their support on the condition that the remaining two follow San Salvador’s lead and switch their recognition from Taipei to Beijing.
This potential pivot could give China indirect control over the US’ border security by making it responsible for stability in those countries after replacing American aid there.
It’s already recognized that many of these migrants are motivated to flee their homelands by powerful push factors such as systemic mismanagement, corruption, drugs, unemployment, and gang violence, which were what the US’ “Alliance for Prosperity” assistance was supposed to address, but it might be China that ends up doing so if Trump scales back these programs like he’s planning and Beijing steps in to replace it. Just as disturbing of a scenario for the US is if this has a knock-on effect that enhances Chinese influence in Mexico after its leftist president-elect AMLO takes office at the beginning of December, thereby representing an unprecedented challenge to the US’ political dominance in the entire Western Hemisphere.
The Catch-22 that the US finds itself in is that its reactionary Hybrid War response could just make the Migrant Crisis even worse, so it’s unclear what America can or will do to retain its hegemony here.



談到“機會”,在特朗普威脅要削減他的政府正在向洪都拉斯,危地馬拉和薩爾瓦多這三個“北方三角”國家提供援助之後,一個新的機會突然出現了,這是所謂的“聯盟”。繁榮“之後他們未能阻止成千上萬的公民參與最新的大篷車危機 ,這為中國在經濟上乾預他們的支持提供了完美的藉口,條件是其餘兩人跟隨聖薩爾瓦多的領先並將他們的承認從台北轉為北京。
這種潛在的支點可以讓中國間接控制美國的邊境安全 ,使其在取代美國援助後對這些國家的穩定負責
人們已經認識到,這些移民中的許多人都被強大的推動因素驅逐出家園,這些因素包括系統管理不善,腐敗,毒品,失業和幫派暴力,這些都是美國“繁榮聯盟”援助應該解決的問題,但是,如果特朗普按照他的計劃縮減這些計劃並且北京採取措施取代它,那麼中國最終可能會這樣做。 同樣令人不安的美國情景是,如果這一事件具有連鎖效應,可以在其左翼總統當選的AMLO在12月初就職後增強中國在墨西哥的影響力,從而對美國的政治提出前所未有的挑戰整個西半球的統治地位。

美國發現的Catch-22是其反動的混合戰爭反應可能只會使移民危機更加嚴重,因此不清楚美國能夠或將會做些什麼來保持其在這裡的霸權。

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-27/china-challenging-us-central-america-and-washington-cant-do-anything



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