Biden wants to hike tariffs on imports of Chinese steel and aluminum
Chinese steel imports account for less than 1% of U.S. demand, officials told reporters. But Chinese subsidies and programs mean its steel prices are 40% lower than U.S. prices, and the Biden administration is worried that there could be a surge of exports.
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On the Significance of Xi Jinping Thought on China and its Development
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Mao Zedong made the Chinese nation stand up, Deng Xiaoping made the Chinese people rich, and Xi Jinping will make the Chinese people strong.
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Brazil reinforces border with Venezuela, Guyana with armored vehicles
Guyana, Brazil expand strategic military cooperation
Growing US Military Presence in Brazil
From 2004 to 2017, Brazil led the military component of the United Nations-backed peacekeeping mission to Haiti known as MINUSTAH. Since the U.N. Security Council authorized a new mission to Haiti last October, however, Brasília has been shy about supporting the operation. Brazil has offered to train Haitian police forces, but it has declined multiple requests from both the United States and United Nations to provide forces or financing for a new mission.
In 2023, DR Congo’s authorities sought to hire 2,500 military contractors from Latin America to fight in North Kivu province, where a government-led coalition is pitted against the M23 rebels, a UN Group of Experts report indicates.
Led by Erik Prince, the founder of former security company Blackwater and current head of Frontier Resources Group (FSG), the plan to deploy mercenaries from Columbia, Mexico and Argentina “was reinitiated” in June and mid-July 2023, the UN report of December 2023 says.
Inside Kinshasa’s plan to hire American mercenaries to fight M23
Trump invites Chinese to build US auto plants
Trump’s offer to China went unreported in virtually all media. Mainstream US media attacked the former president for using the term “bloodbath” to describe the impact of prospective Chinese imports on the American auto industry, implying that he had threatened actual violence if he was not elected. But the transcript of his remarks at a Dayton, Ohio, rally makes clear that he was referring to industry conditions.
After the failure of the Lima Group, Latin American right-wing former presidents created a new group to continue interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, such as attempting to overthrow the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
Lima Group 2.0: Right-Wing Latin American Ex-Presidents Demand US Interventionism in Venezuela
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Despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Ecuador’s violent crime problem is such an incredible disaster that it manages to attract international attention. Criminals have recently taken over live newscasts. Supporters of the rightwing governments that created the disaster (for example, The Economist) have declared Ecuador to be the deadliest country in the Americas. It’s difficult for Ecuador to get international news coverage. In recent years, it generally has to be something very bad (or sports-related).
David Villamar interviewed about Ecuador’s violent crime disaster
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How Did Ecuador Spiral into This Nightmare? It Was the Neoliberal Dismantling of the State
Upon assuming the US presidency, Joe Biden asserted in his first major foreign policy address, “America is back!” For Latin America and the Caribbean, this has meant an “aggressive expansion” of the US military in the region.
US Military Projection in Latin America and the Caribbean Intensifies
Immigration, from Ecuador, has increased 5X in just one year:
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Where’s today’s Gary Webb?!
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