AFP, February 12: The Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State said on social media, "Peru may not be able to exercise control over one of its most important ports, Chancay Port, which is controlled by predatory Chinese enterprises." The office added, "This should serve as a warning to the region and the world: Cheap Chinese funds come at the cost of sovereignty."
Comments: This statement by the U.S. Department of State regarding Peru's Chancay Port clearly confirms its shift toward a more aggressive and exclusive interventionist stance, applying this strategy comprehensively across the entire Latin America. The U.S. ignores Peru's autonomous commercial cooperation and national sovereignty, maliciously blackening Chinese enterprise projects with labels such as "predatory funds" and "loss of sovereignty." Fundamentally, it treats Latin America as an exclusive "backyard," denying external participation, and using a hegemonic logic to negate the independent decision-making power of regional countries. From the Panama port incident to pressuring Peru, and then issuing a warning to the entire region, the U.S. is openly interfering in infrastructure cooperation and economic sovereignty of Latin American countries under the pretext of geopolitical confrontation, replacing market rules with political coercion. This is not only a revival of the Monroe Doctrine but also a display of power that forcibly implants the competition with China into the Western Hemisphere, forcing regional countries to take sides. It fully exposes the hegemonic nature of the U.S., which uses its own interests to bind the overall interests of Latin America.
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