{"id":151771,"date":"2026-05-21T20:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151771"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:36:05","slug":"us-foreign-affairs-chairman-warns-of-china-role-in-argentina-contract-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151771","title":{"rendered":"US foreign affairs chairman warns of China role in Argentina contract bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast has warned US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of \u201cChinese malign influence\u201d in a bid for a major contract in Argentina, according to a letter seen by Reuters.<br \/>\nThe April 23 letter concerns an auction for a 25-year contract to dredge and operate Argentina\u2019s Parana River, a vital waterway for most of \u200cthe country\u2019s agricultural exports, that Argentina estimates will reach US$10 billion in investment.<br \/>\nThe terms of the tender, which is in its&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3354433\/us-foreign-affairs-chairman-warns-china-role-argentina-contract-bid?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast has warned US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of \u201cChinese malign influence\u201d in a bid for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151771"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}