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Huh… nicaragua was not on my bingo card Tl;dr: to prevent china from creating an alternative canal across Lago Cocibolca in south nicaragua
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The new Panama? Why Nicaragua could be next front in US-China influence battle

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Anonymous 22w

It makes sense. The authoritarian Nicaraguan government is the product of a revolution against a U.S.-backed dictatorship and tends to align itself with China and Russia against the USA. Weirdly they recognized Taiwan as the government of China until 2021.

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