The Trump administration’s national security strategy was the talk of the town among foreign policy analysts when it came out in December. That was especially true in Latin America circles, thanks to the document signaling a renewed Monroe Doctrine for the Western Hemisphere. It was only the third time Beijing put out a policy paper on the region and the first one in a decade. Image Parsifal D’Sola AlvaradoHow are Latin American countries handling their Beijing ties in a post-Maduro world? "My recommendation, whenever I talk to anyone is ‘you should, within your foreign ministry, set up an office explicitly to formulate a China policy’,” he says.