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General Laura Richardson, chief of the US Southern Command (Southcom) arrived Tuesday in Buenos Aires for a 3-day visit to Argentina during which she intends to engage in talks with local military and defense authorities to discuss geopolitical issues of mutual interest. According to local media, an encounter with President Javier Milei was not to be ruled out.

New Argentine President Javier Milei may have railed against China but he’s taken a pragmatic track since. Still, the new government should look closely at China’s Argentine space station.

The United States should expand and develop its relationships with countries in the Western Hemisphere amid heightened competition with China.

How China caught up a strategic port, Hambantota is one of the most vivid examples of China's ulterior use of loans and aid to gain influence around the world. After struggling to repay the loan, the Sirisena-Ranil government handed over the port to China on a 99-year lease in 2017. During the handi

China is planning the construction of a new radar base in Sri Lanka which will allow it to spy on UK and US military bases in the Indian Ocean.

The awful truth behind Argentina’s Ukraine policy is that they want to maintain economic ties with Russia and China – notwithstanding their own experience with dictatorship.

With Argentina and Beijing cementing their partnership in the Silk Road Initiative and Beijing supporting Argentina’s Falklands claim,

The Argentine government has earmarked some 70 million dollars, in three years, for the construction of an Antarctic Logistic Pole in Ushuaia, capital of the extreme south province of Tierra del Fuego. Some US$ 25 million will be invested next year to begin the development of the strategic project aimed at consolidating Ushuaia as the support hub for scientific research in Antarctica.

By John J. Metzler This didnt have to happen. But blame toxic politics, the living legacy of the populist Peronist era, and the tipping point of the COVID-19 pandemic, and you discover what is unravelling Argentinas socioeconomic fabric. Sadly we see a resource-rich and formerly middle class country morphing into a tragic parody of bad governance and socialist stagnation. Argentina is a land where many of the political-isms of the 20th century have been tried, tinkered with and usually failed....