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CHAD WOLF: China's AI mockery shows the fight for the Americas is underway

China’s joke only works because Beijing believes the United States still does not fully understand the nature of the contest

By Chad Wolf Fox News

Published April 9, 2026 9:00am EDT

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Recently, China’s embassy in Washington posted an AI-generated video mocking President Donald Trump’s proposed Shield of the Americas summit. The point was to paint the United States as paranoid, overbearing and desperate to cling to influence in Latin America.

The video was cheap, Chinese Communist Party propaganda. But it was also revealing.

Beijing no longer feels the need to hide its contempt. It is comfortable jeering at the United States in public, and specifically its influence in the Western Hemisphere, a region Washington once treated as its uncontested strategic backyard. That shift should concern Americans far more than the video itself.

Today, under President Donald Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio’s leadership, an economically stable and secure Western Hemisphere is now a key national security priority of the United States. Most notably, that includes confronting and limiting the expansion of Chinese influence in the region.

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