By JIANLI YANG Dec 20, 2025
A new paper reveals the essence of Beijing’s worldview: the entire world is one chessboard, and the Taiwan question is at its center.
About a week after Washington released its latest U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) — a document unusually frank about the imperative of securing the Western Hemisphere — Beijing issued its own Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean. The timing was not coincidental. Together, the two documents reflect a sharpening great-power competition in a region that the United States has historically treated as its geopolitical sanctum — but that China increasingly views as an extension of its global contest with Washington. Beijing’s paper is more than an update; it is a blueprint for pushing back against the United States in its own hemisphere, and an assertion that the Taiwan question now underpins China’s global engagement — including in regions geographically far from the Taiwan Strait.
The NSS expressly re-anchors American strategy in the Western Hemisphere to a renewed vision of the Monroe Doctrine. It identifies preventing outside great-power penetration in America’s backyard as essential to securing the U.S. homeland. This posture — described by some analysts as the Monroe Doctrine’s “Trump Corollary”— establishes that Washington will deny competitors the ability to position military or dual-use capabilities in the hemisphere, or to control critical regional assets such as the Panama Canal, Caribbean ports, and emerging logistics hubs. It is a statement of strategic geography: before the U.S. can defend the status quo in the Indo-Pacific, it must first neutralize threats closer to home.
Beijing’s new Latin America and Caribbean Policy Paper responds directly to this reassertion of U.S. hemispheric primacy. The document presents China as the champion of the Global South, pledging economic cooperation and “no-strings-attached” aid to the region, and explicitly contrasting Chinese assistance with what it portrays as U.S. “unilateral bullying.”
The paper lays out commitments that span the domains of agriculture, high-end manufacturing, infrastructure, AI, aerospace, space, and maritime cooperation — an agenda deliberately aligned with high-value, high-leverage sectors. It signals Beijing’s ambition to deepen its long-term economic footprint in the hemisphere, supporting Chinese firms investing in strategic sectors and encouraging Latin American governments to integrate further into China’s global supply-chain networks… [Continue Reading]
Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/chinas-alarming-latin-america-strategy/