Latin America's role in the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China is gaining significance. The Biden administration faces challenges in diplomacy due to the presence of certain leaders at CPAC. Experts emphasize the need for the U.S. to engage with Latin American nations to counter China's influence and strengthen supply chains. The U.S. maintains commitments to organizations like the OAS, IDB, and Summit of the Americas while pursuing a pragmatic foreign policy approach. Asymmetries in U.S. relations with Latin America and the Caribbean pose challenges, with concerns about U.S. hegemonic power generating fear and distrust in the region. Efforts to address issues like democracy erosion in El Salvador are complicated by leaders' popularity, impacting the broader region. The U.S.'s strategy towards Brazil is seen as a foreign-policy success despite evolving ties.
Irrespective of how U.S.-Brazil ties have evolved since 2022, the United States’ election year strategy toward Brazil remains a remarkable U.S. foreign-policy success, @OliverStuenkel writes. https://t.co/qGeDJZfqEp
“Bukele’s popularity is complicating efforts to counter his corrosive effect on democracy, with implications beyond El Salvador,” former @StateDept special envoy Ricardo Zúniga writes in our @LATAMProg newsletter. Subscribe here, https://t.co/MCqwx5Nxcw https://t.co/sqpolGexjm
“US relations with Latin America and the Caribbean are troubled by massive asymmetries,” @rfeinberg2012 writes in the @wilsonquarterly. “US hegemonic power—economic, military, demographic, cultural—can generate fear and distrust in the region.” https://t.co/btDz6lr3KC
The US is committed to the @OAS_official, @the_IDB, and Summit of the Americas, @rfeinberg2012 writes in the @WilsonQuarterly, but also pursues “flexible, opportunistic, multilayered multilateralism” in a “pragmatic, results-oriented foreign policy.” https://t.co/btDz6lr3KC
.@shannonkoneil discusses China’s growing influence in Latin America—and argues that if the Biden administration wants to both counter Beijing and shore up U.S. supply chains, it must start engaging Latin America’s nations commercially and strategically. https://t.co/qVuhbfRu4E
“The presence of both Milei and Bukele at CPAC complicates the Biden administration’s approach to bilateral cooperation,” as “the personalization of diplomacy risks pitting countries against each other ideologically rather than collaborating on shared interests.” https://t.co/j5Dt7Knvuo
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