Biden concludes foreign diplomacy in region where US influence overshadowed by China

In what could perchance beryllium President Biden's past overseas diplomacy trip, helium volition soon caput to South America to conscionable with planetary leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Biden volition archetypal question to Lima, Peru, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, wherever helium is slated to conscionable with Xi, perchance their last brushwood arsenic heads of state, according to a elder medication official.

Biden's attendance astatine the acme is expected to beryllium followed by a halt successful Brazil aboriginal adjacent week, wherever the Group of 20 summit, a gathering of the nation's foremost economical powers, is being held. While successful Brazil, Biden volition besides go the archetypal sitting U.S. president to marque a sojourn to spots successful the Amazon rainforest.

Luong Cuong, Vietnam's president, speaks during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit successful Lima, Peru, connected Nov. 14, 2024. (Getty Images)

Biden's overseas diplomacy curtain telephone successful South America comes arsenic the U.S.'s power successful the portion has been getting overshadowed by China's, experts person argued.

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The U.S.'s modern argumentation toward the portion has shifted implicit the past century, from focusing connected issues related to the governmental stableness of the portion to present connected issues of amerciable migration and narcotics and however they interaction the state domestically. Meanwhile, China has been taking vantage of the holes near unfastened by the U.S. owed to this displacement successful priorities.

For example, South American countries person turned to China erstwhile the U.S. has failed to found commercialized agreements with them, the Wall Street Journal reported. Near the commencement of the Biden administration, Uruguay and Ecuador's attempts to make free-trade agreements with the U.S. were stymied, truthful they turned to China. While Ecuador's precedence is to found a commercialized statement with the U.S., its ambassador said the state is "prioritizing alternatives" portion the U.S. transitions to the Trump administration. 

The nationalist flags of Peru and China flutter astatine Tian'anmen Square connected June 28, 2024, successful Beijing. (Getty Images)

The U.S. inactive holds much commercialized agreements successful South America than China, but the communist federation has expanded its power successful different ways. Beijing has invested successful parts of South America with projects similar ports successful places specified arsenic Peru that commercialized successful Chinese currency, and satellites successful Las Lajas, Argentina. China has besides established mineral and foodstuff purchases successful the region, seen perchance arsenic an effort to fortify resources up of immoderate struggle successful the South China Sea successful airy of the accrued planetary tensions surrounding Taiwan.

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Meanwhile, the U.S. International Development Finance Corp., a national bureau that directs investments successful processing countries, invested $30 cardinal successful backing for a critical mineral excavation successful Brazil. However, nether the investment's existent mandate, each Latin American countries, but Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua and Haiti, are considered to beryllium excessively affluent to payment from the investment.

Under President-elect Donald Trump, relations with South America could proceed to worsen arsenic his threats of tariffs person make interest among planetary commercialized leaders.

President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/File)

Biden and Xi's gathering portion successful Peru volition beryllium the pair's 3rd in-person gathering since Biden took office. 

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According to a elder medication official, the 2 are expected to sermon a scope of issues covering military-to-military communications, quality rights, fentanyl, artifical intelligence, clime change, cybersecurity, Taiwan and the incoming Trump administration.

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.