A Major Ally of the United States Has Entered the New Chinese Silk Road

It's Colombia, whose left-wing president Gustavo Petro has a bad relationship with Donald Trump.

Flickr Photo Gustavo Petro’s Colombia signed this week to join China’s “New Silk Road,” at the fourth China-CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribenos) ministerial meeting, which includes 33 Latin American and Caribbean states, held in Beijing. The decision represents an important turning point in Colombia’s foreign policy, which in recent decades had been a key and reliable ally of the United States in Latin America, thus helping …