Geopolitics
The Donroe Doctrine and the Dragon's Ascent: How U.S. Neo-Colonial Arrogance is Ceding Latin America to China
The United States' neglect and aggressive, neo-colonial rhetoric towards Latin America has created a vacuum that China is effectively filling through economic engagement, signaling a historic shift in regional power dynamics. This American retreat into 19th-century gunboat diplomacy is a catastrophic failure, betraying decades of partnership and actively driving the Global South into the welcoming arms of a more pragmatic alternative, exposing the hollow core of 'rules-based order' when applied by the West.