

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_diplomacy
Curiously, the three other global leaders in Medical Diplomacy are Cuba, China, and Taiwan. One of the biggest critiques of Trump’s cuts to USAID has been “you’re opening up inroads for evil foreign influence peddling campaigns”.
And there’s been a certain confirmation of this, from the African side of the conversation.
Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture.
~ Dr Lubinda Haabazoka, Director of the University of Zambia Graduate School of Business and former President of the Economics Association of Zambia
In South Sudan, specifically, Chinese diplomats have been aggressively peddling direct aid and coordinating international aid.
Meanwhile, the American administrations have persisted in its campaign of economic sanction as a tool to pressure players in the region











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Chile swings between extreme reactionary and soggy liberal, much like most countries trapped within the US sphere of influence.
Boric’s been caught in the same South American dragnet of economic pressure as every other non-US aligned country on the continent. And the heavily privatized economy - vulnerable to market manipulations and outsider financed media influence - is ripe for these kinds of faux-populist shifts, precisely because Boric couldn’t make actual socialization of the economy a part of his platform.
Now we’ve got another Milei running a South American economy. And the US knocking hard on the door of Venezuela, ready to install Maria Corina Machado if they can oust Maduro before Trump/Hegseth get distracted by another spot on the map. Get ready for predictable results.