{"id":243958,"date":"2025-07-07T00:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243958\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:28:15","slug":"inside-the-secret-military-dialogue-between-britain-and-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243958\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the secret military dialogue between Britain and Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">America\u2019s top brass worries about the South Atlantic. It is a jumping-off point for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/international\/2024\/10\/31\/intrigue-greed-and-hostility-burn-in-the-antarctic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antarctica<\/a>, where Russia and China boast 15 bases between them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2024\/10\/31\/how-to-avoid-anarchy-in-antarctica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scrambling to lock down resources<\/a>. It is linked to the Pacific by the Strait of Magellan, the only safe maritime route between the two oceans other than the drought-hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/the-americas\/2024\/01\/09\/the-dwindling-of-the-panama-canal-boosts-rival-trade-routes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panama Canal<\/a>. Traffic through the Strait is surging, as is illegal Chinese fishing on either side. China is pushing infrastructure projects across the region. America\u2019s top generals have visited Argentina\u2019s deep south three times in the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America\u2019s top brass worries about the South Atlantic. It is a jumping-off point for Antarctica, where Russia and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[10105,748,6218,43333,49,978,659,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-243958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-geopolitics","11":"tag-the-americas","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-usa","15":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114809123999764985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}