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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tiago Rogero, South America correspondent

Trump’s disdain for South American allies is China’s gain

a shipping port
The port of Chancay, Peru, which is owned in part by Chinese shipping company Cosco, on 29 October 2024. Photograph: Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images

While Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, were engaged in a very public row over the deportation of migrants last month, China’s ambassador to Bogotá was enthusiastically tweeting that diplomatic relations between China and Colombia had reached their “best moment”.

After Petro refused to receive a plane from the US carrying handcuffed deported Colombians, Trump retaliated by doubling tariffs and revoking visas for Colombian government officials.

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