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The United States, China, the European Union and India all pursue supply agreements and mining stakes across Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. Chinese operators additionally finance and build physical infrastructure, including the Chancay deep-water terminal in Peru and river and rail projects in the Southern Cone.
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The United States, China, the European Union and India all pursue supply agreements and mining stakes across Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. Chinese operators additionally finance and build physical infrastructure, including the Chancay deep-water terminal in Peru and river and rail projects in the Southern Cone.
Washington has proposed or imposed tariffs on Brazilian goods and issued sanctions designations touching Brazilian and Colombian officials and networks. Affected governments respond through negotiation, retaliation or appeals to the domestic electorate, and the measures intersect with election cycles in the targeted states.
Chinese and Russian state media frame mineral purchases, port finance and rail construction as mutually beneficial South-South cooperation that delivers infrastructure Western lenders declined to fund, and cast US warnings about those projects as smear campaigns intended to deny the region a second partner.
ChinaSouth American outlets present their governments as active agents rather than objects of competition: courting several buyers at once, legislating national minerals policy and pressing to capture processing and value-added stages domestically instead of exporting raw ore.
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