China’s stadiums Lula and Latin America after the shock of the Trump tariff

President Trump wants to move Latin American countries to Washington’s orbit, Echoes From the Monroe doctrine, when the United States claimed that the Western Ball Half in its field.

This week, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, President Luise Inosio Lula da Silva of Brazil and other prominent officials from Latin America and the Caribbean Sea region in Beijing have been certain that China intends to maintain a fixed beating obedience in that region. Experts said that many Latin American governments also want to maintain the Beijing side – mainly as an economic partner, but also for some as a budget for the United States.

“The people of Latin America and the Caribbean region are independent and self -determination, not the so -called” Monroe doctrine “,” China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Miao Dio told reporters in Beijing on Sunday. According to the daily newspaperHay to President James Monroe Advertisement 1823Warning European powers against not interfering in the Americas.

US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, He said that The Trump administration will “put our region, the Americas, first”, and Mr. Rubio I A journey abroad as a minister It was to Panama, Guatemala and other countries in the region. However, the comprehensive definitions of Mr. Trump and the seizure threats on the Panama channel have raised leaders in Latin America, especially in cautious countries already from Washington.

Even if Mr. Trump is not distinguished by name in official data from Mr. Shi’s meetings with Mr. Lula, and perhaps other Latin American officials, this will be clear.

Lula said that China is a partner in balance in global power, not just a commercial partner but a geopolitical balancing dominance. The spectator MatthiasProfessor of politics and international relations at Fundação Gutulio Vargas, a Brazilian university. “A clear Lula strategy: diversifying the Brazil alliances, reducing dependence on Washington, and Brazil’s assertion as an engine and a thankful world in a multi -polar world.”

However, the closed doors behind, China’s conversations are unlikely with Mr. Lula and other Latin American leaders and the Caribbean Sea region about mutual admiration. Mr. Lula is the most prominent leaders who gather in Beijing in favor Tuesday meeting Between Chinese officials and ministers from Latin American society and the Caribbean Sea region, or Celac, a group that does not include the United States or Canada.

Colombia A recent presidentGustavo Petro, the former left -wing rebel, will also attend Chinese The media reported. But it is not clear who was attending, and it is usually attended by foreign ministers and other government officials.

Over the past two decades, China has become a great buyer of minerals and other Brazil’s agents, Peru, Chile and other Latin American agents. Chinese products, including cars and devices, have fill out the markets in the region, and Chinese investments have funded bridges, dams and ports. Hoping to repeat what happened during Mr. Trump’s first term, when China bought more soybeans, iron ore and other products from Latin America in the face of American definitions.

Last year, trade in goods between China and Latin America It reached nearly $ 519 billionAbout weakness Value a decade agoAccording to Chinese customs statistics

Mr. Lula, despite all the friendliness to Beijing, Increase definitions On the iron cable, steel and optical fibers, the products that come mostly from China. Countries throughout Latin America “are very anxious” that Chinese exporters close to the American market will convert cheap goods there, and there are local manufacturers, Ryan BergDirector of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

“These are the countries that have a history of protectionism already and are concerned with protecting local jobs and local industries,” Mr. Berg said in an interview. “Although many countries like Brazil have good relations with China, they moved in parallel with almost the United States to protect some industries for fear that they will become dumping reasons, for example, Chinese steel and aluminum.”

Mexico, the second largest economy in Latin America after Brazil, said so far a more cautious approach to flirting with China, which reflects its much larger trade relations with the United States, Enrique Dossel PetersProfessor of Economics at the National University of Mexico.

In fact, the Mexican diplomatic caution warns a commercial relationship in which China is making great sorting. It nourishes it to a large extent An increase in Chinese cars On Mexico Roads, Mexico is now about 2.4 percent of China’s total exports. That places Mexico before BrazilIt includes more population and absorbs only 1.7 percent of China’s exports, as it is the most important export market in China in Latin America.

“Mexican elites and the government are torn in this new triple relationship” with the United States and China. “However, this will not be sufficient for Mexico, taking into account the existence of a massive China in Mexico.”

Mr. Xi seemed optimistic that he could maintain Mr. Lula and many Latin American leaders alongside, partly through simple stability, and partly through continuous orders of iron ore, soybeans and other commodities. Mr. Lula also expressed his hope that China will help gain gains in new technologies, including space and green energy.

When Mr. Shi traveled to Brazil to get the top of the leaders of the Group of Twenty in November State visit there. This year may do the same when he is expected to visit Rio de Janeiro Summit in July Among the Brexes Group is one of the developing countries founded by Brazil, Russia, India and China. Mr. Biden is the only Visit Brazil When the president – the Group of Twenty’s summit – was only after he lost the presidential elections.

“The fact that we are much closer, but we have high -level visits with a frequency of less than XI are an obstacle to setting regional priorities and a bad mark from a strategic perspective.” Mr. Berg said. “I think a lot will change with Rubio,” he said, noting that Mr. Rubio is fluent in the region.

In the short term, China may focus on more soybeans and other commodities of Brazil. “There is concern about the crowding of the Brazilian manufacturers, but the broader reality is clear,” said Professor Spittor, Brazilian academic. “China’s request supports Brazil’s economic stability.”

Simon Romero In Mexico City, he contributed to the reports.