"Carter still gave it to his favorite people COMMUNIST chinese. "
Ok, I will bite. How do the chinese control the canal, canal operations, canal territory, canal employees, canal administration or any of the above in any way?
A lot can be said about the chinese in panama (mainly the large level of illegal or corruptly allowed immigration and the semi-closed chinese sub-economy that has been created, along with the attendant problems of organized crime, etc), but this ongoing stuff about the chinese canal needs to either be substantiated or dispelled.
CNN: U.S. critics warn of Chinese influence
U.S. military planners long considered the canal a strategic point. That has fueled last-ditch opposition to the handover among American conservatives, who never liked the idea in the first place. Now, some of them are warning that the waterway will fall under communist Chinese control after U.S. involvement ends.
Critics like Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, say china's Hutchison Whampoa's port concession at both ends of the channel means China can gain control over the canal.
"If we do nothing, Mr. Chairman, within a decade, the communist Chinese regime ... will dominate the tiny country of Panama, and will control the Panama Canal," Rohrabacher said. "We cannot afford that to happen. This is not in the interest of the United States, and it would be a severe compromise of our national security."
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Carter Library:
Another of President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy accomplishments was his normalizing relations with the People’s Republic of China.
Over the winter of 1977-1978 Carter cultivated relations with Chinese officials in Washington, and solicited an official invitation to visit China himself. However the president pulled back after his advisor Mondale stated that it was too much to ask the senate to handle the Panama Canal treaties and any new agreements with China at the same time. President Carter was thus told not to be explicit about normalization, and that his visit to China was inconclusive.
( dont' be explicit? - That meas LIE! in lawyerese )