China’s Embassy in the US shared an AI-generated video poking enjoyable at US President Donald Trump’s Shield of the Americas Summit on Wednesday, days after Trump took the stage at the Florida occasion to warn about “hostile foreign influence” in Latin America.
The video, revealed by the Chinese embassy on its X account and produced by the state information company Xinhua News Agency, is titled “Shield of the Americas, or shackles of the Americas?”
The 18-second animation reveals a bald eagle dressed in a go well with presiding over a gathering of white doves that seem to signify Latin American international locations.
The eagle presses a purple button that originally deploys an atomic bomb blast earlier than promising to “keep everyone safe” with a big purple, white and blue defend. However, the defend quickly turns right into a cage that traps the frightened doves, whereas the Eagle says: “Relax, sometimes security comes with a little control.”
NCS contacted the US State Department for touch upon the video and is awaiting a response.
The video, launched days after a gathering that introduced collectively right-wing and center-right leaders from 12 Latin American international locations, appears to query the proposal introduced by Trump throughout the summit: the creation of a “regional military coalition.”
Although the summit was primarily introduced as a safety initiative, Trump additionally took the alternative to warn about China’s rising presence in the area, as half of a broader plan by his administration to reaffirm the United States’ “preeminence” over the Western Hemisphere.
“We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere,” the administration declared in November 2025 whereas unveiling the “Trump Corollary” to the centuries-old Monroe Doctrine.
But whereas James Monroe ordered Europe to keep away from the Americas, Trump is eager on shooing China away. In his inaugural tackle in 2025, Trump claimed falsely that China is “operating” the Panama Canal.
In truth, a Hong Kong-based firm owned two key terminals on both finish of the canal at the time. Last month, Panama’s excessive courtroom dominated the association unlawful, a call Beijing decried as “truly shameful and pathetic.”
The ruling however, Trump continues to lift the challenge in public. At the summit, the president mentioned that the US “will not allow hostile foreign influence to gain a foothold in this hemisphere – that includes the Panama canal.”
For many years, Beijing has expanded its industrial, monetary, and infrastructure ties in the area.
In latest years, China has develop into one of the primary buying and selling companions for a number of Latin American economies and has financed giant strategic initiatives.
One of the most up-to-date examples is the “mega-port of Chancay in Peru,” inaugurated in 2024 with assist from the Chinese transport big COSCO Shipping, which considerably reduces maritime transport occasions between South America and Asia.
Trade progress additionally displays this nearer relationship. Between January and November 2025, Chinese exports to Latin America elevated by 9.3% in comparison with the identical interval in 2024, in response to China’s General Administration of Customs.
Even international locations politically near Washington preserve sturdy financial ties with China. In Argentina, for instance, imports from China exceeded US$16 billion in 2025, a year-on-year improve of 57.1%, regardless of President Javier Milei being thought of one of Trump’s staunchest allies in the area.