China has a hit out at “Cold War mentality” by the United States in Latin America, saying it had complained over comments by Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a visit to the region.

In 2017, it was withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Today, it’s gutting America’s main foreign aid agency.

Since Trump’s first term, they have been adapting their approach to the United States, and they have spent the past three months further developing their strategy to anticipate, counter, and minimize the damage of Trump’s volatile policymaking.