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PART I. THE CONTEXT. US-China-Taiwan Rivalry in Latin America -- Theorizing Taiwan's Relations with Latin America -- Dance with the Dragon: Through the Eyes of Taiwan's Three Ambassadors in Latin America -- Republic of China on Taiwan's Relations with Latin America (1990-2020): The Role of Development Assistance -- PART 2. CRITICAL ISSUES. Energy Policies and Politics Compared: Taiwan and Latin America -- Public Diplomacy at Work: Economic and Cultural Ties between Mexico and Taiwan -- PART 3. CASE STUDIES. Taiwan's Relations with the Northern Triangle -- Taiwan & Nicaragua's Suitable Alliance -- Economic Statecraft: Taiwan and Colombia -- Taiwanese-Argentine Cooperation in Clean Energy: Exploring Opportunity Amid the US-China Rivalry -- The PRC Advance in Central America in the Context of Covid-19.

Prelude: 4 January 1961 -- Introduction -- 'Sniper' -- The Intelligence Gap -- 'Dear Mr Director' -- London -- Stockholm -- Tel Aviv -- Munich -- Washington -- Warsaw -- Berlin -- Flight -- Reverberations -- Oldenburg -- 'Betrayal of the Homeland' -- LAMBDA 1 -- Felfe -- Glory Days -- Monster -- HR 5507 -- Downfall -- Exposed -- Dirty Tricks -- Romanoff -- Support -- Wilderness -- TELETECHNIK -- Mole Hunts -- Double Eagle -- Who Really Was Michał Goleniewski?

Where do you find rainforests? -- How do plants and animals live? -- What does a rainforest look like? -- Why are rainforests important? -- Discover an amazing variety of rainforest plants -- The fight for light -- Plants and their pollinators -- Plants and their seed spreaders -- The cycle of life -- Meet the wonderful animals that live in tropical rainforests -- Animal hunters -- Camouflaging creatures and colorful warnings -- Safety in numbers -- finding a mate -- Growing up in the rainforest -- Why do rainforests need protection? -- Deforestation -- How does climate change affect rainforests? -- Rainforest recovery -- How can you help? -- Make your own mini rainforest -- Protecting the places that are precious.

"We, the People of the United States, have been conned. We've been conscripted into a proxy war ignited by partisan elites who, from their commanding heights in media, academia, and government, denounce and dehumanize not just one another, but all we who fail to support their points of view. Unfortunately-to our great misfortune and peril-everyday Americans are following suit. As a consequence, distrust and hatred between Americans of opposing political parties has reached a level not seen since the Civil War. Businesses, neighborhoods, even families are being divided along a partisan line that none of us drew. Yet even as ideologues sow rancor and discord, they have quietly colluded to steal from under our noses the most essential and American of freedoms: the right to govern ourselves. They've done so by erecting a system under which everyday citizens don't have a voice in the vast majority of decisions that affect our lives. From foreign wars to how local libraries are run, authority no longer resides in We the People, but amongst unaccountable elites. This is the story of how that happened and, more importantly, what we citizens can do about it. The great secret and hope of America is that, though our elites have irreconcilable differences, everyday Americans are not nearly so far apart in our policy preferences as the people who claim to speak for us. There's still time for We the People to reclaim the right to govern our own lives-but time is running out"--