Category: Americas

Beijing Requests for Help With Trade Pact Application Ignored by Australia

The Australian government has refused to respond to Beijing’s “repeated” requests to begin negotiations to join one of the world’s most extensive free-trade agreements. This is despite suggestions from Beijing that the current frosty relations between the two countries would improve if Australia backed its admission to the bloc. China’s ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian…


The Ghost of Peronism: Why Argentina Keeps Making the Same Mistakes Again and Again

Commentary Around a century ago, Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Indeed, in the early 1900s, the country was ranked among the ten richest in the world, ahead of France and Germany. In 1914, more than half of Buenos Aires’s population was actually foreign-born. Argentina was a magnet for numerous European…


US Should Put Aside Differences With Big Tech to Take on Beijing: Senator

The U.S. government needs to bury the hatchet with Big Tech and harvest the innovation of firms like Google, Apple, and Facebook so that the West can better compete with Beijing’s rapid technological advancements, according to a visiting Australian senator. Senator James Paterson, of the centre-right Liberal Party and now-shadow minister for foreign interference, said…


United States and Mexico to Cooperate on Semiconductors, Electric Vehicles

The United States and Mexico are planning to cooperate in the manufacture of semiconductors and electric vehicles, according to a White House fact sheet. Both nations seek to establish a Supply Chain Working Group with the initial focus being on semiconductors and information and communications technology supply chain ecosystems, the Sept. 12 fact sheet states….


US and Mexico to Cooperate on Semiconductors, Electric Vehicles

The United States and Mexico are planning to cooperate in the manufacture of semiconductors and electric vehicles, according to a White House fact sheet. Both nations seek to establish a Supply Chain Working Group with the initial focus being on semiconductors and information and communications technology supply chain ecosystems, the Sept. 12 fact sheet states….


US, Mexico to Cooperate on Semiconductors, Electric Vehicles

The United States and Mexico are planning to cooperate on semiconductor and electric vehicle production, according to a White House fact sheet. Both nations seek to establish a Supply Chain Working Group with the initial focus being on semiconductors and information and communications technology supply chain ecosystems, the Sept. 12 fact sheet states. A Memorandum…


States to Ban Gas-Powered Cars Despite Human and Environmental Cost of Electric Vehicles

In Chile’s Salar de Atacama, locals watch helplessly as their ancestral lands wither and die, their precious water resources evaporating in salar brines. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, hope for a better life dissolves as well-funded Ugandan-led extremist groups force children as young as six into cobalt mines. Closer to home, Nevada’s Fort McDermitt…


Why Some Latin Americans are Fed Up with ‘Gringos’ Living in Their Countries

The subject of U.S. Americans receiving a less than warm welcome in neighboring countries isn’t a new one. When John Woodhouse Audubon, son of the famous naturalist and painter John James Audubon, arrived at Cerro Gordo in Northern Mexico in 1849, he was all but run out of town. In his travel diary, Audubon wrote that he…


Fiery Crash of Bus, Fuel Tanker Kills at Least 18 in Mexico

MEXICO CITY—A fiery crash between a tanker truck carrying fuel and a passenger bus Saturday killed at least 18 people in northern Mexico, authorities reported. Prosecutors in the northern border state of Tamaulipas said the crash might have been caused by one of the truck’s two tank trailers coming lose. The collision left both vehicles…


Chile’s Rejection of Leftist Constitution a Temporary Win for Freedom

Commentary On Sept. 4, 62 percent of Chilean voters rejected a referendum proposing a new socialist Constitution for their nation. Its failure was a sound rejection by the people of radical leftist policies based on identity politics, radical environmentalism and, more broadly speaking, the disregard of fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property. In May 2021,…