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Both were there to peddle their nation's influence to South America.

How did they do ?

Xi and several hundred Chinese business leaders used Chinese funds to open a new deep water port facility to expand trade .

Starting Latin America trip, Xi Jinping opens huge port in Peru funded by China | Reuters




What did Clueless Joe bring to the party ?

We gave then used trains from California and a handful of Black Hawk helicopters

Caltrain Comes to Lima, Peru

United States Pledges to Provide Black Hawk Helicopters to Peru at Historic Ceremony Celebrating 40 Years of Bilateral Security Partnership - U.S. Embassy in Peru

The Chinese invested USD 3.6 billion in the Peruvian project, which began in 2021 and is near completion. The deepest part of the port will be 17.8 meters, which will allow it to berth the very large cargo ships that have a capacity of 18,000 TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units, the standard measurement for the capacity of cargo ships); the largest cargo ship is the MSC Irina, built in China, with a capacity of 24,346 TEUs. During the APEC summit, Presidents Xi Jinping of China and Boluarte of Peru inaugurated the port.
The Chancay port will be complemented by a train line that the Chinese will build that runs from the port into Brazil’s state of Amazonas to the Free Economic Zone within the city of Manaus. Trade between South America and China will be direct and will not need to be transshipped through Central or North America. Shipping time will be drastically reduced, making trade more profitable at both ends.

Peru’s choices between a new deep-water port and used Metro cars : Peoples Dispatch

Instead of helping Peru construct a comparable infrastructure project, the US government was only willing to sell it used diesel trains from the 1980s.
Adding insult to injury, the Joe Biden administration falsely told the public that it “donated” these 40-year-old trains, but in reality Lima had to pay millions of dollars.

China builds $3.5 billion mega-port in Peru; US responds offering 40-year-old trains - Geopolitical Economy Report


Be assured that in the future this new port will be a port of call for the expanding Chinese Navy.