{"id":1141799,"date":"2021-12-22T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141799"},"modified":"2021-12-22T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:34:55","slug":"rubio-calls-out-chinas-latin-american-power-grab-under-the-very-nose-of-the-biden-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-calls-out-chinas-latin-american-power-grab-under-the-very-nose-of-the-biden-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Calls Out China\u2019s Latin American \u2018Power Grab\u2019: Under The \u2018Very Nose\u2019 Of The Biden Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frubio-calls-out-chinas-latin-american-power-grab-under-the-very-nose-of-the-biden-admin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141799&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio claimed Monday that the Biden administration was \u201closing the war against China in Latin America\u201d by a weak response to \u201cexpanding Chinese influence in America\u2019s backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rubio criticized what he viewed as a weak response to China\u2019s efforts to gain power and influence in the region just 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/10\/world\/asia\/taiwan-nicaragua-china.html\">days<\/a> after Nicaragua, under President Daniel Ortega, announced that it was ending diplomatic relations with Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd yet, it appears that the Biden administration\u2019s foreign policy will continue to undercut America\u2019s national interests,\u201d Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/elamerican.com\/biden-lost-the-war-against-china\/\">wrote<\/a> in response to the news. \u201cWhat the United States needs is a real strategy for strengthening democracy and the rule of law in Latin America and countering the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator, writing for El American, noted that China has been pushing its Belt and Road initiative in many countries including Venezuela and Argentina. He argued that China was effectively setting \u201cdebt traps\u201d for developing countries to fall into and become dependent on China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rubio argued that the West was in danger of being overshadowed as China seeks to create \u201cits own economic sphere of influence\u201d in pursuit of becoming the world\u2019s superpower.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNicaragua\u2019s decision to cut diplomatic relations with Taiwan is the latest step in Beijing\u2019s attempt to gain power over our hemisphere,\u201d he added. \u201cOrtega also wants continued Chinese funding for the construction of an Atlantic-to-Pacific canal through Nicaragua, which People\u2019s Liberation Army warships can then use to access the Caribbean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Nicaragua announced its decision to break relations with Taiwan, Taiwan\u2019s foreign ministry expressed their disappointment at the move, saying Ortega \u201cdisregarded the years of solidarity and friendship between the people of the both countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the U.S. State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/nicaraguas-breaking-of-diplomatic-relations-with-taiwan\/\">said<\/a> that they hoped countries would \u201cexpand engagement with Taiwan\u201d and accused Ortega of not being legitimately elected.&nbsp;Ned Price said that Nicaragua\u2019s November elections were a \u201csham\u201d and that it was not \u201cfair and free.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite these statements, Rubio believes that Biden\u2019s response to supporting Taiwan has been inadequate while China has grown its influence in Latin America under the \u201cvery nose\u201d of the Biden administration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He accused Biden of \u201cdowngrading\u201d Taiwan\u2019s participation at Biden\u2019s championed \u201cSummit of Democracies\u201d and called the State Department\u2019s response to Nicaragua\u2019s decision \u201chalfhearted.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, it\u2019s likely that Biden\u2019s incompetence and catastrophic foreign policy convinced Ortega that now was the perfect time to act. So many of America\u2019s rivals are choosing to move against our interests right now because they know our executive leadership is weak,\u201d Rubio argued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican senator also said that he planned on introducing legislation in the next year to promote solidarity against Beijing\u2019s actions in Latin America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An updated Congressional Research <a href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/IF\/IF10982\">report<\/a>&nbsp;last week discussed China\u2019s economic and diplomatic efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, China has \u201ccomprehensive strategic partnerships\u201d with many nations in the region including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Much of China\u2019s goals in the region involve gaining access to new markets for their products and obtaining valuable raw materials including ores, soybeans, and minerals. In 2020 alone, China imported $165 billion from the area and exported $150 billion worth of goods.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report notes that some analysts \u201cmaintain that some countries have amassed unsustainable levels of debt owed to the PRC and have become dependent on commodities exports to China. Some argue that PRC support extends a lifeline to leaders with poor governance records and exacerbates corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio claimed Monday that the Biden administration was \u201closing the war against China in Latin America\u201d by a weak response to \u201cexpanding Chinese influence in America\u2019s backyard.\u201d Rubio criticized what he viewed as a weak response to China\u2019s efforts to gain power and influence in the region just 13 days after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}