With a new series of serious blunders, the Trump administration is undoing decades of bipartisan U.S. efforts to forge solid ties with Latin America, while allowing China to make inroads into the region.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will make his second trip to South America in 14 months when he visits Chile on Jan. 22 to meet with foreign ministers from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations. The meeting aims to forge new plans for improved China-Latin American ties.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has not yet set foot in South America. He has not even set foot in the Organization of American States building, which sits a few minutes away from his office in Washington D.C., to attend foreign ministers meetings on Venezuela and other urgent hemispheric issues.
In addition, Chinese President Xi Jinping has
