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The Guardian view on the new Monroe doctrine: Trump’s forceful approach to the western hemisphere comes at a cost

Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2025. Today, how US foreign policy has dramatically – and alarmingly – turned towards Latin America and the Caribbean

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Panama files lawsuits against owner of ports at centre of US-China struggle

Comptroller general lodged two cases in country’s supreme court after failed attempt to sell to consortium

The Guardian - US

‘We’re taking it back!’: Donald Trump’s Panama Canal dreams hit a snag as China moves in

It turns out China can step on Trump's toes easily.

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CK Hutchison Eyes 'Major' Chinese Investor For Panama Ports Deal

Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison said Monday it was considering inviting a Chinese "major strategic investor" to join a US-led consortium negotiating the sale of its global ports business outside China, including operations at the Panama Canal.

International Business Times

Merz, Xi Discuss Ukraine War, Trade Woes Amid Global 'Chaos'

Germany's Friedrich Merz urged Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday to support a Ukraine ceasefire push and discussed thorny economic ties, in the leaders' first call since Merz became chancellor.

International Business Times

US Takes Rivalry With China To The High Seas

The United States may still have the world's most powerful navy but it seems to have realised that this is no longer sufficient to reassert US supremacy over the high seas.

International Business Times

China's president will unveil a megaport in Peru, but locals say they're being left out

A remote fishing town on the edge of Peru’s coastal desert is the site for a $1.3 billion megaport majority-owned by the Chinese shipping giant Cosco

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China's COSCO Launches World's Largest Electric Container Ship

Discover the world's largest electric container ship, Greenwater 01, showcasing China's leadership in sustainable maritime innovation.

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Chinese-backed port project in Peru to be the 'gateway from South America to Asia,' official says

Dozens of cranes lift blocks weighing several tons and drop them to compact the soil of a roughly one-square-mile area on Peru’s Pacific coast, part of China’s most ambitious port project in Latin America designed to facilitate trade between the regions

The Independent UK

Cosco’s Egypt Terminal Project Enters Antitrust Review

Chinese shipping giant and partners Hutchison Ports and France’s CMA CGM plan to co-develop and operate a container unit at the Suez Canal

Caixin Global

How the German government was divided by a Chinese investment in the Port of Hamburg

The German government has become divided over a deal, agreed last month, which saw Chinese conglomerate Cosco invest in the Port of Hamburg. The deal had been in the works since September 2021 and was championed by the chancellor (and Hamburg’s former mayor), Olaf Scholz.

The Conversation

China calls on Germany to protect access amid chip scrutiny

China’s government has appealed to Germany to maintain access to its markets after a company said Berlin may block the sale of a computer chip factory to a Chinese-owned buyer

The Independent UK

Germany may block sale of chip factory to Chinese-owned firm

The German government may decide this week to block the sale of a chip factory to a Swedish subsidiary of a Chinese company

The Independent UK

German Chancellor Scholz asks China for economic ties 'as equals'

Germany's Olaf Scholz said Friday on his first visit to China as chancellor that he sought a deeper economic relationship with Beijing but expected equal treatment.

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Why Western leaders are warily watching the German leader's trip to China

As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz heads to China to meet with President Xi Jinping on Friday, he is under political pressure at home, and from Washington, to rethink Berlin's relationship with Beijing.

The Independent UK

Germany's Scholz makes difficult visit to assertive China

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is making his first visit to China as German leader this week, a diplomatically delicate trip while Germany and the European Union work on their strategy toward an increasingly assertive and authoritarian Beijing

Reuters

G7 to work together on winter aid for Ukraine, Germany says

Group of Seven foreign ministers gathered on Thursday to weigh how to support Ukraine through the winter in the face of Russian attacks on its power grid as well as deal with China's growing assertiveness and Iran's crackdown on protests.

The Guardian - UK

Germany’s Scholz heads to China amid questions over strategy

Scholz’s coalition government seems uncertain about what sort of relationship it wants with Beijing

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The Independent UK

Germany finds compromise over Chinese stake in Hamburg port

Germany's government has agreed on a compromise to allow a Chinese shipping group to take a smaller stake in the operator of the country’s biggest container terminal

The Independent UK

Allies blast Scholz over Chinese investment in German port

Lawmakers from two junior governing parties have slammed plans for Chinese shipping company Cosco to take a major stake in the operator of Germany's biggest container terminal

Reuters

German spy chief: 'Russia is the storm, China is climate change'

Germany's intelligence service chiefs warned on Monday that China could use stakes in critical infrastructure as leverage to pursue political aims amid a debate in Berlin over whether to let Chinese shipping company Cosco invest in Hamburg port.

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