March 18, 2026

Top US commander for South America claimed at a Congress meeting that Chinese port and space projects across Latin America are all seen as potential dual-use military assets. Chinese analysts noted that Washington's renewed allegation about so-called "China threat" comes at a moment when it has forcefully seized leader of a Latin American country and openly spoken of "taking" another — a move that experts have ridiculed as hypocritical as its ultimate purpose is to squeeze out other countries' influence in Latin America and consolidate its own hegemonic position.

General Francis Donovan, commander of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), made the disclosure during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on US military posture in the western hemisphere on Tuesday. 

"Chinese investment in critical infrastructure, key ports, and port facilitates grant Beijing a foothold in the region and raise concerns of potential dual-use infrastructure that could facilitate intelligence gathering, cyber vulnerability," Donovan claimed, according to a readout of the hearing published on website of House Armed Services Committee. 

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