[T]his blacklist has long since superseded its original military-related purpose and is now Washington’s means of tracking and suppressing China’s top enterprises.
Rasool’s expulsion deepened an already deteriorating relationship between the two countries, one that had been on a downward spiral since Trump returned to office.
Stone ... argued that Hernández’s liberation would give renewed energy to the Honduran right wing, destabilize President Castro’s government, and strengthen what he believes to be Trump and the U.S.’ interests in the region.
Trump, grandson of a German immigrant, is particularly peeved at an independent South Africa, which was the worst example of a Western supremacist-cum-colonial mindset.