Emerging Threats-China rising as South America's trade savior & strategic partner

upi ^ | 8/27/09 | upi

[Flavius]

Latin American exports and other effects of global recession appear to be pushing the region more into a Chinese embrace, as cash-flush Beijing builds major channels for purchases of food and raw materials from cash-strapped South American partners.

[Flavius]

"They have us surrounded. The poor bastards!" ~ 101st Airborne Trooper at Bastogne, Belgium 1944.

[Gay State Conservative]

When China reaches trade agreements with Third and Fourth World dictatorships they never include "human rights" or "transparent government" clauses like the US and other Western governments do.

The filthy Maoist psychopaths currently ruling a number of Central and South American nations today are sure to find this fact quite convenient indeed.

[jagusafr]

This is not a surprise - Hutchinson Whampoa “owns” both ends of the Panama Canal and the Chinese have been trying to establish a presence throughout South and Central America for 20 years.

Colonel, USAFR