Trump is driving China and South America’s relationship to its ‘best moment’

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While Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro were engaged in a very public row over the deportation of migrants last month, China’s ambassador to Bogotá was enthusiastically tweeting that diplomatic relations between China and Colombia had reached their “best moment”. After Petro refused to receive a plane from the US carrying handcuffed deported Colombians, Trump retaliated by doubling tariffs and revoking visas for Colombian government officials. Petro was quickly forced to back down, but while tensions were still high, Beijing’s ambassador Zhu Jingyang, posted 38 tweets celebrating ties between China and Colombia, including photos and videos of a...