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Old 09-25-2019, 03:47 PM
 
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More expanding influence.

As Beijing dangled deals, Washington only offered warnings
“Where would we go?” said Mercedes Hernández, cradling a 1-year-old baby. “We have a life here.”
https://tech1media.com/2019/09/21/to...ew-york-times/
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Old 09-26-2019, 09:03 AM
 
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More expanding influence.

As Beijing dangled deals, Washington only offered warnings
“Where would we go?” said Mercedes Hernández, cradling a 1-year-old baby. “We have a life here.”
https://tech1media.com/2019/09/21/to...ew-york-times/
Original article from New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/w...-backlash.html

The last few years has seen a loss of US soft power and prestige globally at a time when China has been expanding such.
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Old 09-26-2019, 09:10 AM
 
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^ The U.S. gets criticized for meddling in other countries too much and now you are saying we are backing off too much and not meddling enough. So which is it that you want?
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Old 09-26-2019, 09:14 AM
 
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I don't think OyCrumbler is giving a stance about this, just explaining what is happening. Whenever China encroaches in areas that traditionally had the US as the main influencer, the US government grumbles about it even if the current president has a tendency to ignore Latin America (maybe Mexico gets more attention for being a neighbor to the USA and Puerto Rico has a legal relationship with the US, everywhere else south of the border doesn't get much time or interest from Trump). China is simply too happy to gain power in places that has been in the US backyard and the US replaced Spain in the power department.
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Old 09-26-2019, 05:20 PM
 
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Chinese influence is even thicker in South America. It´s not all that impressive in Colombia, but just about anywhere else...Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú, Brazil, Argentina...it´s big, big.
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Old 09-26-2019, 08:56 PM
 
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^ The U.S. gets criticized for meddling in other countries too much and now you are saying we are backing off too much and not meddling enough. So which is it that you want?
What are you talking about? The US is still in El Salvador trying to affect public opinion and meddling—it’s in the article if you bothered to actually read it. That doesn’t change that the US has lost a degree of its soft power due to its loss of prestige and break with many longtime allies. It’s also a lot of very direct and concrete meddling that ends up pissing other countries off which is not soft power and has come back to bite us pretty hard.
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Old 09-28-2019, 07:50 AM
 
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^ The U.S. gets criticized for meddling in other countries too much and now you are saying we are backing off too much and not meddling enough. So which is it that you want?
These 2 things are not mutually exclusive.
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Old 09-30-2019, 04:07 PM
 
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Panama has a ****-ton of Chinese immigrants. There's a town El Valle we hung out in for awhile about 20 years ago, we went back in 2017 and it seems half Chinese. They've even got buildings with Chinese architecture. It's nuts.
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Old 09-30-2019, 04:39 PM
 
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There are already a lot of Taiwanese and Koreans in parts of Central America. They own many of the sweatshops and they are infamous for treating their employees like animals and they have no problem hiring local gangsters to intimidate workers when they speak out against abuses. I distrust any Asian involvement in the region. I much prefer the Americans remain the big players in the region.
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Old 10-01-2019, 12:41 PM
 
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Indeed. Guatemala has a large Korean presence, including a Korea Town in Guatemala City.

Curious = which countries are the Taiwanese more prevalent?
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