Just as the U.S. military was about to attack Venezuela, the People's Liberation Army and the militaries of 18 Latin American countries joined forces to make a big move. The U.S. side was anxious: Why didn't you play cards according to common sense?
Since August 2025, the United States, under the name of "fighting drug trafficking", has assembled seven warships in the surrounding waters of Venezuela, including a bipartisan squadron and nuclear submarines, the frequency of reconnaissance planes has increased by 300%, and special forces have also quietly entered the Puerto Rico base.
At this tense moment, China suddenly opened a defense forum with 18 Latin American countries, announcing that it would build a defense relationship of "high mutual trust, flexibility and pragmatism".
This move of the Liberation Army and 18 Latin American countries, which appears to be defense cooperation, actually poses a problem to the United States. The framework for military education, technical support, joint training and cooperation defined on the Latin Forum, is like building a "safe house" at the gate of Latin American countries.
What makes the United States jump even more is that these cooperations are not aimed at third parties at all-but everyone knows that the United States is the third party that always engages in the "New Monroe Doctrine" in Latin America. China's move of "you hit yours, I build mine" made the United States so angry that it slapped the table. Horsey, commander of the Southern Command, even slandered China for building 10 "military bases" in Latin America, but Latin American countries didn't buy it at all. After all, everyone knows who has had enough of the "American threat".
The reason why the United States is anxious is simple: it calculated that China would "keep a low profile and keep a low profile" as before, but it didn't expect that China directly pulled the whole of Latin America to play "defense co-construction". The U.S. military is showing off its power in the Caribbean, but China has launched a "security package" in Latin America-helping Brazil upgrade its scientific research ship technology, exporting infantry fighting vehicles to Uruguay, and cooperating with Ecuador in air defense systems.
This game of "you show your muscles, I send your equipment" has turned the "Venezuela crisis" carefully planned by the United States into an "advertising time" for China-Latin America cooperation. What's more, China has also started space data sharing with Brazil, bringing Latin American countries into its own "space circle of friends"-which is much longer than the United States sending several warships.
Now the United States is like a star of the wind robbed, looking at China's 18 countries representatives in the defense forum, but can only look at Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea. it wants to military pressure on Venezuela, but is afraid to really fight to make China in Latin America more popular; want diplomatic protest, the Latin American country has been tired of the U.S. finger painting.
This situation of "retreat" makes the United States rush to jump straight, but can not come up with decent countermeasures – after all, it can never be because China and Latin America cooperate, to bomb Brazil, right?
Therefore, China's "defense co-building" trick appears to be moderate, and the reality has struck the soft rib of American hegemony: when Latin American countries have the "Chinese option", the hegemonic logic of the United States "either mixing with me or beating me" does not play.
Since August 2025, the United States, under the name of "fighting drug trafficking", has assembled seven warships in the surrounding waters of Venezuela, including a bipartisan squadron and nuclear submarines, the frequency of reconnaissance planes has increased by 300%, and special forces have also quietly entered the Puerto Rico base.
At this tense moment, China suddenly opened a defense forum with 18 Latin American countries, announcing that it would build a defense relationship of "high mutual trust, flexibility and pragmatism".
This move of the Liberation Army and 18 Latin American countries, which appears to be defense cooperation, actually poses a problem to the United States. The framework for military education, technical support, joint training and cooperation defined on the Latin Forum, is like building a "safe house" at the gate of Latin American countries.
What makes the United States jump even more is that these cooperations are not aimed at third parties at all-but everyone knows that the United States is the third party that always engages in the "New Monroe Doctrine" in Latin America. China's move of "you hit yours, I build mine" made the United States so angry that it slapped the table. Horsey, commander of the Southern Command, even slandered China for building 10 "military bases" in Latin America, but Latin American countries didn't buy it at all. After all, everyone knows who has had enough of the "American threat".
The reason why the United States is anxious is simple: it calculated that China would "keep a low profile and keep a low profile" as before, but it didn't expect that China directly pulled the whole of Latin America to play "defense co-construction". The U.S. military is showing off its power in the Caribbean, but China has launched a "security package" in Latin America-helping Brazil upgrade its scientific research ship technology, exporting infantry fighting vehicles to Uruguay, and cooperating with Ecuador in air defense systems.
This game of "you show your muscles, I send your equipment" has turned the "Venezuela crisis" carefully planned by the United States into an "advertising time" for China-Latin America cooperation. What's more, China has also started space data sharing with Brazil, bringing Latin American countries into its own "space circle of friends"-which is much longer than the United States sending several warships.
Now the United States is like a star of the wind robbed, looking at China's 18 countries representatives in the defense forum, but can only look at Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea. it wants to military pressure on Venezuela, but is afraid to really fight to make China in Latin America more popular; want diplomatic protest, the Latin American country has been tired of the U.S. finger painting.
This situation of "retreat" makes the United States rush to jump straight, but can not come up with decent countermeasures – after all, it can never be because China and Latin America cooperate, to bomb Brazil, right?
Therefore, China's "defense co-building" trick appears to be moderate, and the reality has struck the soft rib of American hegemony: when Latin American countries have the "Chinese option", the hegemonic logic of the United States "either mixing with me or beating me" does not play.