Monroe Doctrine

Doctrine warning European powers not to colonize or interfere in the Western Hemisphere.

Used here for a revived US claim to uncontested hemispheric control over South America, Mexico, Canada, and surrounding resource flows.

Used here as the doctrine that the Western Hemisphere belongs to the United States and should be protected from outside great-power influence. Used here as the rule China is said to respect in practice: the United States treats Latin America as its own sphere, so Beijing will not directly contest Washington there. Jiang's frame for Trump's Venezuela pressure: the United States asserting hemispheric control and warning outside powers away from South America.

Jiang invokes the Monroe Doctrine as the principle that the western hemisphere is under American control and outside powers such as Russia, China, and Iran should be pushed back. Jiang invokes it as the principle that the Western Hemisphere is an American zone where rival powers should not act without Washington's approval.

He interprets defending the homeland and Western Hemisphere interests as the claim that the Western Hemisphere belongs to America and outsiders need U.S. permission to trade there.

He argues that Trump's simultaneous Iran war and North American aggression only look incoherent until they are read as a push toward a Greater North America strategy.

The Monroe Doctrine makes the Western Hemisphere American territory by warning European powers away from further colonization.

The December national security strategy treats the Western Hemisphere as American territory, including Venezuela's oil and South America's lithium triangle.

Jiang says a rational explanation for Trump is to strangle China's food and oil imports through Western Hemisphere control and Hormuz control, forcing China into a dollar-supporting deal.

Jiang says Trump's America First worldview does not end empire but recenters it on the Western Hemisphere under a Monroe-Doctrine logic.

Jiang says the strategy explicitly claims the Western Hemisphere for America and treats control of lithium, copper, silver, and other minerals there as a way to strangle China's high-tech economy.

Jiang says the current U.S. national security strategy effectively contains a 'Trump corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine, under which Trump will actively enforce American exclusivity over the Western Hemisphere.