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5️⃣ CAMC announced it would construct a deep-water port in Bluefields on the Caribbean Sea. At the same time, Nicaraguan President Ortega pitched a new inter-oceanic canal to Chinese investors at the XVII China-LAC Business Summit

www.bnamericas.com/en/news/nica...

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4️⃣ The Vice President of China’s legislature (National People's Congress), Li Hongzhong, visited Panama, Honduras, and the DR to meet with regional presidents and legislative leaders. He also met w/PARLACEN officials

www.revistaeyn.com/centroameric...

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3️⃣ After Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Freeland publicly agreed with U.S. concerns about Chinese investment in Mexico, Mexican President Sheinbaum said that her government is working to replace imports from China with goods made in Mexico

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2️⃣ Following years of negotiations, Suriname finally signed a debt rescheduling agreement with China. Right now, the Caribbean country currently owes China’s Ex-Im bank about $476 million and it owes ICBC about $68 million

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

1️⃣ Xi made his first visit to Latin America since the pandemic for the APEC summit in Peru and the G20 summit in Brazil, receiving a state visit in both countries & inaugurating the Port of Chancay (which will start operating in 2025)

www.reuters.com/world/chinas...

Not only is the Caribbean is just a lot more consequential (economically, security-wise, etc) for the United States at the moment than Peru's Pacific coast, but Ortega is *much* more hostile to US interests and concerns