US makes fresh pitch to Latin America in bid to counter China's influence

Experts say Growth in the Americas programme is attempt to reassert US control - and seems likely to anatagonise Beijing

Growing tensions between the US and China have prompted clashes at the United Nations, accusations of spying and rumblings of a global trade war.

In Latin America, the rivalry has recently prompted a public relations battle over which superpower could provide ventilators and PPE during the pandemic, outcry over a Chinese deepwater fishing fleet and renewed pressure over the adoption of Huawei technology in 5G networks.