China Is Aggressively Expanding Its Influence In Latin America

Washington views China’s attempts to aggressively expand its influence in Latin America with increasing alarm. Beijing is using its considerable economic clout as the world’s second-biggest economy to ramp up relationships with Latin America’s resource-rich nations at Washington’s expense, as the rivalry between the two global powers intensifies.

An area to emerge in recent years as being of particular interest to Beijing is the resource-rich countries situated in the northern Andes of South America. After more than a decade…