On July 9, Agência Brasil reported that Brazil and China are studying the construction of a transcontinental railway in South America, which will be 4,500 kilometers long, starting from Bahia in northern Brazil, crossing the Andes Mountains, and arriving at the large Chancay port near Lima, which was built with funding from the "Belt and Road" initiative.
If completed, compared to the Atlantic shipping route through the Panama Canal, it could reduce the shipping time from Brazil to Asia by up to 12 days.
Due to this transcontinental railway across South America, it would directly undermine the Atlantic shipping route controlled by the United States into South America. Mauricio Klavir-Carona, Trump's special advisor on Latin American affairs, threatened to impose tariffs of up to 60% on companies that trade with China using the Peruvian Chancay port, which starkly reflects the diametrically opposite attitudes of China and the United States toward the region.
One side tries to create value, while the other sees others' gains as its own loss...
In fact, upon closer reflection, the United States would also benefit significantly from a more prosperous and developed Latin America. On one hand, this would greatly improve its illegal immigration problem, and on the other, it would create wealth and infrastructure for American goods and services.
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