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China’s Xi Jinping backs Panama towards US strain over canal

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published May 13, 2025
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Xi Jinping has pledged help for Panama towards US strain over possession of its ports and supplied better co-operation with Latin American nations in areas together with regulation enforcement as Beijing courts a area that Washington has historically thought of its yard.

Addressing a summit of leaders of 33 Latin American and Caribbean states in Beijing on Monday, the Chinese language president additionally introduced measures to deepen ties with the area, together with visa-free journey and a $10bn growth credit score line.

Xi’s assembly with the Latin American leaders signalled Beijing’s willpower to problem Washington for world affect, and got here someday after US President Donald Trump agreed to a truce in his tariff struggle with China.

China is already the biggest buying and selling associate with Latin America, with bilateral commerce exceeding $500bn final yr.

China “supports Latin America in safeguarding its national sovereignty and independence and opposing external interference”, Xi informed the China-Neighborhood of Latin American and Caribbean States ministerial summit, whose attendees included Brazilian chief Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro.

Xi invoked demonstrations in China within the Sixties held in solidarity with Panamanian protesters, who have been against US management of the canal within the nation.

Trump has put strain on Panama over what he has alleged is Chinese language affect over the canal, which he has threatened to take again underneath US management.

That strain led Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison, which owns services on both aspect of the waterway, to agree in March to promote them to a consortium led by BlackRock as a part of a $22.8bn deal for its port operations.

The deal angered Beijing, which urged CK Hutchison to rethink. Chinese language antitrust authorities have additionally opened a probe into the proposed sale, an uncommon step for a deal involving a Hong Kong firm.

In a blow for the US, Petro reiterated throughout a go to to China’s Nice Wall on Monday that Colombia deliberate to enroll to Xi’s Belt and Street Initiative, the Chinese language president’s signature worldwide infrastructure drive that has helped lengthen Beijing’s affect.

Petro, who holds Celac’s rotating presidency, hailed the transfer as a “profound step forward between China and Latin America”.

Lula’s authorities additionally introduced in Beijing that Chinese language firms would make investments R$27bn ($4.8bn) in Brazil, together with R$6bn from Chinese language automotive group Nice Wall Motors and the acquisition of a copper mine within the north-eastern Brazilian state of Alagoas by Chinese language group Baiyin Nonferrous, Brazilian media reported.

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Xi’s pledge of $10bn of credit score for growth in Latin America comes as Trump has slashed worldwide help commitments, in addition to funding for pro-democracy programmes and broadcasters similar to Voice of America.

The Chinese language president additionally pledged co-operation on a variety of security-related areas together with cyber safety, counterterrorism, anti-corruption, drug management and combating worldwide organised crime.

He mentioned China would additionally assist nations within the area “strive to maintain regional security and stability” by way of the implementation of “law enforcement training projects” and “equipment assistance”.

Xi unveiled a variety of different co-operative measures, together with visa-free journey for 5 unspecified nations within the area, which might be expanded “in due course”. China has expanded visa-free entry to quite a few European nations in current months.

Further reporting by Michael Pooler in São Paulo

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