China Opens Mega-Pier in Peru, Biden Answers With Local Train Service
The U.S. is concerned about China’s continued reach into its sphere of influence
While the U.S. is busy funding wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, China is extending its reach deep into Washington’s sphere of influence — catching the Biden administration flat-footed.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken rushed to Peru on Saturday to announce a new Lima-Washington partnership that involves a passenger train line, just days after China’s Xi Jinping was in the country to open its $1.3 billion port in Chancay.
“Today we announced that the United States will support the city of Lima in building a new passenger train line that will expand access to reliable and affordable transportation for over 200,000 people every single day,” Blinken posted on X.
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He said the U.S. will support Lima as it develops the new train line that will connect Peru’s downtown to the eastern suburbs.
He said the California Department of Transportation will provide the city with more than 100 “high-quality rail cars and engines” and American companies will provide more than 50 percent of the services for the project.
His announcement came after China’s President Xi Jinping visited the city earlier last week to watch the opening of the deepwater pier in Chancay as part of China’s Belt & Road Initiative.
“China is ready to work with Peru to build a new land-sea corridor between China and Latin America with the Chancay Port as a starting point... From Chancay to Shanghai, we are witnessing the birth of a new Asia-Latin America land-sea corridor."
Juan Carlos Mathews Salazar, Peru’s former minister of foreign trade and tourism, told The South China Morning Post that Lima started floating the idea of a pier back in 2008.
“We offered the project to several companies and governments in the rest of the world. But no one was willing to finance it,” he said.
The project was eventually the result of a partnership between Cosco, a Chinese shipping company, and Volcon, a Peruvian mining company as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The Bank of China agreed to finance the construction of the port with a $3.5 billion loan, the report said.
The U.S. is concerned about China’s continued reach into its sphere of influence. The port, which was built by China’s COSCO Shipping and located about 50 miles north of Lima, is expected to be a boon to Peru’s economy and possibly turn Peru into the “Singapore of the region.”
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, was launched by Xi in 2013, which raised concerns in the U.S. that these developing countries could turn to the Asian giant instead of Washington.
Biden said earlier in his presidency that “China has an overall goal… to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world. That’s not going to happen on my watch because the United States is going to continue to grow.”
As we have long noted, the business of America has been at war, and the business of China is business. The U.S. keeps sending hundreds of billions of dollars to keep bloodying the killing fields by supporting the Ukraine and Israel wars, as proven by the Presidential Election, while its working class suffers economically.
As we have been reporting, former President Bill Clinton brought China into the World Trade Association in 2000 (which Senator Joe Biden supported), and China’s GDP at the time accounted for a 3.6-percent share of the world’s economy. Now, just 20 years later, it has grabbed a nearly 18-percent share.
Thus, as China expands its domestic economy and continues to develop its BRI, it will continue to grow in financial and military power as the United States and Europe decline.
Ah, yes, we can see that the Jews are big in China!
They raped the West until every penny was gone but look at all the Yuan in China!
They’ll suck China dry now!
But first they’ll start their Third World War to get rid of Whitey!
China and the BRICs are doing what America used to do.
Near the end of WWII, F.D.R., whose intention was to eliminate British methods (the stick of colonialism), said,"We are builders, not destroyers".
Then came Harry Truman, Winston Churchills sap. The Iron Curtain of Russophobia followed with the Cold War and the left-right Neo-cons went berserk with the US $ money Empire since then until today when the charade is about to implode.