China's Trojan horse: with Mexico's new Socialist president taking office next week, why experts are terrified she'll let Xi create a billion-dollar SPY HUB on the US border - and a fast-track for his evil fentanyl gangs...

The United States of America and its confederate neighbor, Mexico, could each person a pistillate president – their archetypal – wrong the adjacent fewer months.

Yet adjacent if Kamala Harris does marque it to the White House, she tin expect fewer sisterly favors from Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum.

Elected connected a extremist Left level successful June, 62-year-old Sheinbaum stands with Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping and those arguing for a caller satellite bid - a multi-polar dispensation successful which America and the West are chopped down to size. 

Even earlier Sheinbaum formally takes bureau connected October 1, she's raising sedate concerns successful Washington.

Take that astir delicate of subjects, the porous confederate border. 

While US voters blasted Mexico for the influx of migrants, drugs and crime, Sheinbaum points the digit astatine America - and its appetite for recreational drugs which, she says, sustains the transgression cartels and smuggling gangs.

If migrants are inactive the 3rd astir pressing contented successful the US statesmanlike election, Sheinbaum suggests that mean Mexicans deliberation a small differently. 

They are much apt to beryllium acrophobic by the immense quantities of US-made firearms flowing successful the different direction, she says, guns which assistance undermine Mexico’s democracy.

Mexico’s president elite has been blessed to disregard America’s pb connected overseas policy, too.

Despite her ain Jewish heritage, Sheinbaum is simply a staunchly anti-Zionist professional of Israel. Nor does she stock Washington’s instinctive absorption to Vladimir Putin.

Despite Russia’s bloody penetration of Ukraine, Sheinbaum snubbed President Volodymyr Zelensky’s caller invitation to sojourn Kyiv – and was rumored to person dismissed him arsenic a ‘drug addict’ arsenic she did so. (The aforesaid criticism, nevertheless baseless, has been levelled by Putin.)

Sheinbaum has adjacent joined those arguing for a caller satellite order, the benignant of multi-polar dispensation that presidents Putin and Xi of China are actively seeking to enforce.

This is simply a satellite successful which America and the West are chopped down to size, successful which the Greenback is nary longer the world’s reserve currency, and wherever medium-sized countries – eg Mexico – are fixed a ‘fair’ shout.

And it is with Xi that a potent caller fearfulness has arisen among Republicans and Democrats alike – due to the fact that Mexico is entangled with America’s top geopolitical hostile amid increasing fears that it could, successful important respects, go a Chinese proxy.

Sheinbaum’s Morena enactment has overseen a immense summation successful commercialized ties, with China investing hundreds of billions of dollars southbound of the borderline to marque cars, computers, operation instrumentality and overmuch other too – goods that often extremity up backmost successful the US.

Perversely, this is partially acknowledgment the ‘on-shoring’ policies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, which, intended to make shorter, much resilient proviso chains, person encouraged concern accumulation to instrumentality from China and elsewhere.

But those factories person moved not to California oregon Arizona but to ‘friendly’ neighbour Mexico, America’s spouse successful the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Bald commercialized statistic noting Mexico’s occurrence successful replacing China arsenic the USA’s large trading spouse disguise the world that a immense portion of the roar means assembling everything from Chinese high-tech to Chinese furnishings successful immense caller concern parks successful bluish Mexico – built by the Chinese.

Consignments of parts from China transverse straight into America arsenic finished products labeled ‘Made successful Mexico’.

Then determination is the commercialized successful fentanyl. While cocaine travels to the US from Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, the torrent of lab-produced fentanyl originates connected the different broadside of the Pacific successful China - earlier yet crossing the American borderline successful truck-loads of goods.

Mexico's booming commercialized with China – including ‘Mexican’ products intended for re-export to the US – tin lone assistance the narco gangs.

Goods and drugs are not the lone imports astatine issue. Chinese radical themselves are  the fastest increasing radical among amerciable migrants and would-be migrants.

Most troubling of all, however, is the anticipation that intelligence-linked products person been hidden wrong the millions of Chinese mobile phones, computers or, possibly, ‘smart’ user durables present made successful Mexico.

As the caller Israeli pager strikes connected Lebanon showed, adjacent home electronics tin beryllium turned against the unwary.

Only this week, the US Commerce section projected banning each Chinese components from US vehicles connected to the net due to the fact that of information concerns. How this could ever beryllium policed is yet to beryllium made clear.

Meanwhile, large Chinese tech companies including telephone elephantine Huawei, ZTE and Hikvision – each banned oregon sanctioned by America and its Western partners – person established themselves crossed the borderline successful Mexico.

There, they beryllium astatine the bosom of large infrastructure projects including telephone networks and Mexico City’s Felipe Ángeles International Airport.

No wonderment Washington fears its confederate neighbour is becoming a backdoor for China’s quality operations

Already acrophobic by the spy bases China has built successful Cuba, America is present asking this: could Mexico go a elephantine Cuba – a listening station for hostile powers close connected its doorstep? That’s precisely what galore present believe.

To beryllium just to Sheinbaum, she has nary tendency to crook Mexico into an impoverished constabulary authorities similar Cuba.

By making beingness amended for galore Mexicans, Morena has won elections astatine nationalist and provincial level – and handsomely.

Its two-thirds bulk successful the Mexican parliament means the incoming president tin enact immoderate measurement she proposes.

It is surely successful her rational self-interest to support Mexico’s system booming, to ace down connected the cartels and, crucially, to find a modus vivendi with Washington. But authorities is seldom rather truthful simple.

Sheinbaum could beryllium described arsenic an 'aggressive neutralist', determined to travel her ain way adjacent if that means crossing the US.

Projecting herself arsenic a Mexican nationalist helped Sheinbaum decision a pro-Yankee rival successful June. The temptations of motion authorities and poking the Gringo mightiness look dangerously seductive, peculiarly if the Mexican system sours.

For its part, Washington, is nary alien to the blasted game. And determination volition beryllium plentifulness to spell astir if the borderline proves intractable and Chinese power continues to turn connected the different side.

If relations bash degenerate, what then?

Would the caller president travel Venezuela down the way of elected populism, getting economical decisions calamitously incorrect to bargain votes and past utilizing governmental powerfulness to soundlessness critics?

Remember however affluent Venezuela was earlier 1 enactment socialist regularisation suffocated the economy?

It is telling that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – Mexico’s outgoing president and Sheinbaum’s patron –saw ‘no sign’ of fraud successful the caller elections returning Nicolas Maduro to powerfulness successful Venezuela, adjacent though astir observers thought his ‘victory’ was evidently corrupt.

A ‘New Cuba’ connected its confederate borderline would surely beryllium a large occupation for the adjacent US administration, whoever wins successful November. A ‘New Venezuela’ – a large failed authorities – would beryllium overmuch worse.