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The Trump administration is planning to ramp up global spending for an anti-China initiative to the tune of $175.8 million, according to a new document.
Last week, the Trump administration notified Congress of the “Countering CCP Control of Caribbean and Central America Undersea Cables project.”
It’s a push to combat Chinese influence in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Haiti, per the document reviewed by The Associated Press.
Funds will be used to support the replacement of undersea telecommunications cables, according to the wire.
“The United States must respond to the CCP’s [Chinese Communist party] growing economic, technological, and diplomatic leverage around the world which undermines our national interests,” the document reads, as reported by AP.
The decision to increase funding for anti-China initiatives follows cuts led by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) last year.
The attempt to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and Voice of America have influenced the decline in American presence overseas.
Pullback has collided with China’s increase in spending on state-run media operations, local language targeting and pro-Beijing messaging.
China also continues to supply military hardware to Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador further deepening their ties to the Americas.
President Trump has warned his counterparts overseas against waging a stake in Latin America by creating the political alliance comprised of more than a dozen countries known as the Shield of Americas.
Trump continuously shares a vested interest in reducing China’s presence at ports in the Panama Canal and their influence digitally in the AI race.
Jinping and Trump will likely see each other in person at the annual U.N. General Assembly in September, where they may discuss improving bilateral trade relations and foreign influence in the western hemisphere as Chinese officials maintain that their presence is innocent.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said that China’s footprint in regions “is not about wooing or rivaling anyone, but about safeguarding world peace, promoting global development, upholding international order and building a community with a shared future for humanity,” according to AP.
Jian later added that, “turning it into a political or security issue will only disrupt international market rules and threaten global digital connectivity and cybersecurity, which serves no one’s interests.”
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