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Trump Wants China Out of Guyana
Trump wants China out of Guyana. There's just one problem: China already owns 25% of the oil.
On August 7, 2026, the United States Department of War announced an $85.5 million equity investment — matched by $64.5 million in private capital, $150 million in total — to buy and expand a bauxite mine. Not in Arizona. Not in Alaska. In the Essequibo region of Guyana, a country of fewer than a million people.
The Pentagon didn't send a general to Georgetown. It sent a cheque. And it bought a piece of the ground.
In this investigation, Platinum Pulse takes apart one of the most consequential and least understood geopolitical squeezes happening anywhere in the world right now — using executive orders, tender documents, ambassadors' letters and Pentagon press releases instead of slogans.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND OUT:
- Why Guyana was hit with a 38% tariff in April 2025 while every neighbour got 10% — and why the real answer was never about trade
- The correction almost every commentator got wrong: Guyana was never dropped to 10%. It went to 15%, then the Supreme Court struck the whole regime down, and by July 2026 Guyana sat in a 12.5% forced-labour tariff band alongside China itself
- The absurdity at the centre of the tariff math — Guyana was punished for a trade deficit created by an American oil company's own success, and then crude, gold and bauxite were exempted, so the tax landed on shrimp, rum and timber exporters instead
- The fact that reframes everything: CNOOC, a Chinese state-owned oil company, holds 25% of the Stabroek Block — a quarter of the resource Washington calls strategically vital
- Why "getting China out" is arithmetically impossible, and what Washington is doing instead
- How $13 billion in Chinese investment built the bridge the President drives across, six regional hospitals, and a footprint in almost every community in the country
- The 2021 incident where a Taiwan trade office in Georgetown folded within hours — the clearest demonstration of how fast Chinese capital converts into policy
- Congressman Gabe Evans's "creeping Chinese influence" letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the Chinese Ambassador's extraordinary response across three national newspapers on the same Sunday
- How the January 3, 2026 U.S. operation in Venezuela removed the Essequibo threat overnight — and why that turned a security guarantee into the most powerful leverage in the hemisphere
This is not a story about who wins. It is a story about what happens to a small country when it strikes something the world cannot do without.
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📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING
U.S. Department of War — "Department of War Announces an $85.5 Million Agreement With Strategic Bauxite USA to Secure the Critical Refractory Grade Bauxite Supply Chain," August 7, 2026 (war.gov)
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesperson — "Deputy Secretary Landau's Travel to Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana," August 2026 (state.gov)
U.S. Department of State — "Deputy Secretary Landau's Meeting with Guyanese Minister of Finance Singh," July 2026 (state.gov)
Kaieteur News — "U.S. Congressman warns of 'creeping Chinese influence' in Guyana," May 2, 2026
Kaieteur News — "Facts Speak Louder Than Words: The Real Story of China-Guyana Cooperation," by Ambassador Yang Yang, May 17, 2026
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China — Ambassador Yang Yang signed article, May 2026 (fmprc.gov.cn)
Kaieteur News — "U.S. Govt. to acquire bauxite mine in Guyana," August 9, 2026
Stabroek News — "Trump slaps 38% tariff on Guyana goods," April 3, 2025
Kaieteur News — "U.S. reduces reciprocal tariff on Guyana," August 2, 2025
Kaieteur News — "Guyana hit with 12.5% Trump tariff in new U.S. trade crackdown," July 25, 2026
Demerara Waves — "Guyana says new US 'forced labour tariff' will not burden Guyanese exporters," July 24, 2026
Oil & Gas Governance Network — Christopher Ram, tariff methodology analysis, April 2025
ExxonMobil Guyana — Stabroek Block production releases and partner interest disclosures (Exxon 45%, Chevron 30%, CNOOC 25%)
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Published Aug 27, 2026