Ron DeSantis in Foreign Policy

On Foreign Policy: Reinvigorate Monroe Doctrine: limit China in Latin America

Republican presidential candidates such as Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis are calling for the doctrine's reinvigoration to take aim at China's growing presence in Latin America and are offering it as a justification for a potential U.S. military attack on criminal organizations in Mexico. They are following the lead of former U.S. President Donald Trump, who hailed Monroe on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, as well as advisors such as John Bolton and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Anticipating renewed great-power rivalry, this time with China, the seeming simplicity and persistence of the Monroe Doctrine mean that it has regained adherents in the US.