Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’: The US Plan to Kick China Out of Latin America

Is Latin America the latest frontline in the New Cold War on China? Tricontinental Institute researcher Tings Chak joins Amanda Yee to break down the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine and the historic crossroads facing Latin American sovereignty and development.

Just five days apart, Washington and Beijing released competing policy blueprints for Latin America. While the U.S. National Security Strategy outlines a strategy of coercion and military domination, Beijing’s Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean proposes "win-win cooperation" and “mutual benefit.”

From the kidnapping of Maduro and threats against Mexico and Colombia to the global race for rare earth minerals, the "Donroe Doctrine" is being felt in real-time. At its core is a strategy to crush Latin American sovereignty, secure U.S. control over the Western Hemisphere's resources, and lock China out.

Read Chaks’s article, “China and the Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine”:

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