The campaign to reduce Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere will need to be waged a long time.
China fights back against losing control:
Panama is one battle in a much larger contest over who will shape the Western Hemisphere. For more than two decades, China expanded its reach by financing, building, and operating ports, railways, electrical grids, telecommunications systems, logistics hubs, and energy projects across Latin America. Those investments created influence that extends well beyond commerce.
But Washington has begun pushing back. The dispute in Panama offers an early look at how difficult it may be to reverse two decades of Chinese infrastructure expansion.
It would have been better to have started pushing back decades ago. Worse to have delayed decades more.
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