By Mehmet Enes Beşer In recent years, China’s increasing presence throughout Latin America and the Caribbean has alarmed U.S. policymakers and analysts. From Andean construction projects to online investments throughout the Caribbean, Beijing’s economic footprint is growing—and with it, anxiety in Washington that U.S. influence in its self-declared backyard is under siege. But framing China’s overtures to the Americas as ...
While the United States designs wars, plans invasions, decides on sanctions, and implements tariffs against the entire world, China quietly advances its peace diplomacy. While Washington rhetorically spews forth its plan for planetary destruction, which it Machiavellianly executes, assuming that this will allow it to maintain its global hegemony, Beijing, quietly, builds a dynamic of peace and cooperation to make ...
By Fernando Esteche, from Buenos Aires / Argentina The 17th BRICS Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, marks a turning point in the reconfiguration of the global order. Beyond the headlines of notable absences and diplomatic declarations, the agreements reached reveal both the bloc’s transformative potential and its internal contradictions, especially in a context where Western hegemony faces unprecedented structural ...