Guess Who’s the World’s Greatest Colonial Power Now?

China’s strategic neocolonialism extends into Argentina

A worker unloads containers on an Airbus 330-200 of Aerolineas Argentinas carrying 904,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines after it arrived at Ezeiza International Airport from China in Ezeiza, Argentina, on Feb. 25, 2021. Marcos Brindicci/Getty Images

Commentary

While the world has focused on the war in Ukraine—and before that, the pandemic, Beijing’s crushing of Hong Kong, the situation in the Middle East, and other big events—China has been steadily replacing U.S. influence in Latin America.