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China's Growing Influence in America's Backyard

China's Growing Influence in America's Backyard

The United States should expand and develop its relationships with countries in the Western Hemisphere amid heightened competition with China.

 
Aside from the politics of the U.S.-Mexico border and illegal immigration, the Caribbean Sea is America’s “other” southern border and the gateway to the Western Hemisphere. U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean, which it traditionally considered its “backyard,” is also an extension of domestic politics. It largely begins with Cuba and ends with Venezuela while neglecting the rest of the “small” but strategic island nations of the Caribbean Basin. Read more ...