China: US Disrespects Latin American Countries

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China’s Foreign Ministry accused the United States of disrespecting Latin American countries after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned against excessive reliance on economic ties with China.


“Latin America does not need new imperial powers that seek only to benefit their own people,” Tillerson said on Thursday. He also attacked China’s state-led development model arguing it “is reminiscent of the past,” adding “it doesn’t have to be this hemisphere’s future.”

China’s Foreign Ministry defended its economic ties with the region claiming they are based on mutual interest. In a statement the Chinese government blasted the U.S., describing Tillerson’s comments as going “against the truth,” and charging the U.S. with displaying “disrespect to the vast number of Latin American countries.”

The statement also rejected claims that China is undermining U.S. interest in the region.

"The development of China-Latin America ties does not target or reject any third party, nor does it affect the interests of third parties in Latin America,” the release stated while urging the United States to abandon its “outdated concepts of zero-sum games and look at the development of China-Latin America relations in an open and inclusive manner.”

Many of the region’s leaders have looked to China as a trading partner and a source of government to government loans after various economic crises hit several countries in the region in the early 1990s and early 2000s.

According to analysts, China’s attractiveness to the region as a loan provider is that it does not demand any economic or social policy changes, nor does it impose structural adjustment programs as was the norm with loans granted by the International Monetary Fund, which many claimed undermined the country’s sovereignty.

Tillerson started his Latin American tour on Thursday but has faced significant criticism after he openly called for a military coup in Venezuela.

During a speech in the University of Texas on Thursday Tillerson praised the military claiming that "in the history of Venezuela and South American countries, it is often that the military is the agent of change when things are so bad, and the leadership can no longer serve the people." Commentators have said his statements disregarded the role military dictatorships on the continent have had in subverting democracy and committing human rights violations including killings, kidnappings, and forced disappearances.

Venezuela’s military quickly responded to Tillerson’s insinuations saying these "senseless threats against Venezuela demonstrate, once again (that the U.S. government) has become the greatest agent of violence, discrimination, and humiliation in the world."

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LOL what Americans think? South America is not US's back yard, such insecure nation like to lecture how other nations should or should not do is just a laughable matter, Any nation wants to have close friendly relation with China is not US's business. Economic and Business relation is just a first step, China can further enhance the military cooperation with South America Nations and eventually have military base there...it seems that China learn to take a page our of US's book

 

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[Dalit]

Who doesn't the US disrespect nowadays? The developing world is glad that China offers an alternative. The developing world looks up to China. The US is deemed an arrogant power. All we needed was Trump as US leader. The true face has come to the forefront.

 

[YeBeWarned]

Donald Trump is worst thing that happened to US after Vietnam .

 

[AndrewJin]

US，the single biggest terrorist regime, should be nuked out of this universe.

 

[JSCh]

Commentary: Resurrecting outdated Monroe Doctrine reflects Washington's entrenched backyard thinking
Source: Xinhua| 2018-02-04 13:24:23|Editor: ZD


by Xinhua writers Fernando Munoz, Zhu Wanjun

BEIJING, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Ahead of his visit to Latin America, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that Washington's Monroe Doctrine "clearly has been a success" and "is as relevant today as it was the day it was written" in 1823.

The doctrine was first put forward to drive Europeans away from the region almost two centuries ago. With such an interventionist foreign policy, Washington officially staked out its backyard.

In 2013, then U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the era of the Monroe Doctrine had ended and predicted a new relationship with Latin America featuring equal rights. Today, with Tillerson's remarks, the Trump administration is signaling that it wants to resurrect the obsolete foreign policy.

Over the past year, U.S. President Donald Trump has brandished a big stick against Cuba and Venezuela. His government has abandoned a rapprochement with Cuba and issued a series of sanctions against Venezuela with the purpose of promoting a change of government in the country.

Ever since the doctrine was first formulated, the United States has sought to control and manipulate the region through direct and indirect interventions, and to extract huge resources and wealth from local countries.

To guarantee its almost absolute control over the continent, Washington has, over the past two centuries, carried out a host of military interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama, Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Haiti.

Many historians and critics have observed that "Americans" in the phrase "America for the Americans" is limited to "the United States."

The region's excessive dependence on the United States neither brought it prosperity nor security, and this explains why the region has decided to expand its relations, both economic and political ones, to other countries in the world, to reduce such dependence and seek a greater integration into the wider international community.

Also in his speech delivered hours before flying to the region, Tillerson warned Latin American governments of the advance of "predatory" foreign countries. Similarly, over two centuries the Monroe Doctrine aimed to avoid interventions from outside the American continent.

He even labeled China and Russia as "imperial powers" in Latin America. Such blunt lecturing shows that the Trump White House still intends to keep Latin America strictly within its sphere of influence. It is like putting up a big sign that says: "Stay away! I own it."

Also, Tillerson's accusations against China are as ridiculous as they are self-defeating.

But Chinese policies, which promote free trade and globalization, including the Belt and Road Initiative, are now offering welcome alternatives for Latin America.

China is now a major international buyer of Latin American bulk commodities, and imports more and more agricultural and high value-added products from the region. China's investment in and financial cooperation with Latin American countries are in full accordance with commercial rules and local laws and regulations.

While Beijing is trying to help Latin Americans realize their dream of development and prosperity, Washington is becoming more protectionist against the region, and seeking to resurrect a policy born in the age of colonialism.

To Latin Americans and the world, it is becoming increasingly clear which country is really the imperialist power.

 

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US is shooting their own foot on this. China just trades, while US had been doing covert action from assassination to funding revolutions in Latin America. This warning just reminds what US can do if Latin American countries disobeys.

 

[yantong1980]

The Old empire crying loud because "new empire raise" in South America? Does he forget South America always become subject of American bully policy?

 

[Sh@msu]

lol...united states of a*sf00kers should mind their own business instead o whining.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Who doesn't the US disrespect nowadays? The developing world is glad that China offers an alternative. The developing world looks up to China. The US is deemed an arrogant power. All we needed was Trump as US leader. The true face has come to the forefront.

Not only arrogant man but cruel!
This kind of country who seek force to get the job done is no more unacceptable!
Chinese does not think their way is the only way!!!Apparently US does!

 

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I can't wait for the day when there are Chinese military bases in Latin America and Chinese freedom of navigation operations within 12 miles of California.

 

[Wolfwind]

Many Latin Americans consider themselves heirs to European culture and insist they are “White”.

They have mistreated Chinese in the past.

 

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Peru defends China as a good trade partner
CGTN
2018-02-07 10:31 GMT+8

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Peru's trade minister defended China as a good trade partner on Tuesday, after United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Latin American countries against excessive reliance on economic ties with the Asian powerhouse.

Eduardo Ferreyros said Peru's 2010 trade liberalization deal with China had allowed the Andean nation of about 30 million people to post a $2.74 billion trade surplus with Beijing last year.

"China is a good trade partner," Ferreyros told foreign media, as Tillerson met with President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Lima, a stop on Tillerson's five-nation Latin American tour.

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Peru's Foreign Trade Minister Eduardo Ferreyros /VCG Photo

"We're happy with the results of the trade agreement," Ferreyros said.

The remarks were the Peruvian government's first signal since Tillerson's warning that it does not share Washington's concerns about growing Chinese influence in the region.

Before kicking off his trip to Latin America on Friday, Tillerson suggested that China could become a new imperial power in the region, and accused it of deploying unfair trade practices.

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Rex Tillerson arrives at Benito Juarez International Airport (MEX). /VCG Photo‍

"I appreciate advice, no matter where it comes from. But we're careful with all of our trade relations," Ferreyros said, when asked about Tillerson's remarks.

Ferreyros also praised Peru's trade relationship with Washington, despite a trade deficit with the US. "I'm not afraid of trade deficits," Ferreyros said.

Since China first overtook the US as Peru's biggest trade partner in 2011, thanks mostly to its appetite for Peru's metals exports, bilateral trade has surged and diplomatic ties have tightened.

Kuczynski, a former Wall Street banker, made a point of visiting China before any other nation on his first official trip abroad as president in 2016.

Under former president Barack Obama, the US had hoped to counter China's rise in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region, which includes large parts of Latin America with the sweeping Trans-Pacific trade deal known as the TPP.

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US President Donald Trump shows the Executive Order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on January 23, 2017. /VCG Photo‍

While President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the TPP upon taking office, the 11 remaining signatories, including Peru and Japan, have struck a similar deal that they plan to sign without the US in March.

Tillerson, who left Peru for Colombia on Tuesday, said on Monday that Trump was open to evaluating the benefits of the United States joining the so-called TPP-11 pact in the future, which Ferreyros called "a good sign."

All countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including China, were welcome to join TPP-11, Ferreyros said. "But the deal has closed and countries that want to join obviously can't renegotiate the whole agreement," he added.

Source(s): AFP