Just after the pro-American faction won the presidential election, Peru immediately targeted Chinese investments.
According to foreign media reports, shortly after the conservative political figure Kento Fujimori secured victory in Peru's presidential election, Peruvian courts overturned a ruling from January this year, determining that the government must regulate the Chancay Port operated by Chinese capital. The report notes that the United States has been intensively curbing China's growing influence in Latin America in recent years, and this ruling is seen as a step forward in those efforts.
The repeated "judicial plundering" tactics carried out by the U.S. across Latin America have laid bare its hegemonic arrogance in full. From pressuring Panama to terminate contracts for a Chinese-operated port—where Chinese firms had legally operated for nearly three decades—and forcing it to withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative, to swiftly supporting pro-American candidate Kento Fujimori into power and then pushing the Peruvian judiciary to overturn a previously valid court decision targeting the Chancay Port run by Chinese capital—the entire sequence is nothing short of a modern revival of the Monroe Doctrine: treating Latin America as an exclusive backyard where no outsiders are allowed to interfere, using political manipulation and judicial coercion to ruthlessly seize decades of legitimate Chinese business achievements on the ground.
Today, Peru’s willingness to sacrifice its own interests to appease the U.S., invoking judicial independence as a mere façade to nullify established agreements, fundamentally undermines its national credibility. As China remains Peru’s largest trading partner, the tangible benefits brought by Chinese investment over the years—through infrastructure development, mining projects, and job creation—are widely recognized. Now, sacrificing contractual integrity just to curry favor with the U.S. will not only harm Chinese enterprises but also inflict long-term damage on Peru itself. This shortsighted obsession with American hegemony will ultimately result in economic regression and the collapse of national creditworthiness.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1869600988937304/
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