China's Whampoa Ltd. opens port in Bahamas

Washington Times ^ | 20 November 2001 | John Collins

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FREEPORT, Bahamas — Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., the Hong Kong-based shipping giant with ties to Beijing that has alarmed conservatives with its ports at both ends of the Panama Canal, is now fully operational with a $2.6 billion facility in the Bahamas.The company, owned by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, who has personal ties to China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), now controls some 15 percent of world shipping — a figure that is expected to grow despite the economic slowdown.

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FYI

[Eccl 10:2]

Betcha a nickel Whampoa is, among many dirty things, a key component of China's drug trade.

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Those nice containers used in shipping also make it much easier to smuggle weapons as well. The Chicoms are getting a greater grip on strategic shipping lanes (see the newsmax links about China's ports on the Chicom Watch page). If you haven't read it yet, get a copy of Bill Gertz's book "The China Treat". Gertz goes into detail about China's new found infatuation with controlling shipping lanes (more imortantly, the Panama Canal). Whampoa etc. has been an effective tool in Beijing's hands.

Chicom Watch

[batter]

new found
Actually, it's an 'infatuation' that has been going on for quite a while.

[boothead]

i— Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., the Hong Kong-based shipping giant

Hutchison-Carter-Whampoa Ltd.

[backhoe]

Flagging, and cross-linking here:

Unresolved Questions- the Panama canal, good, bad, or a waiting disaster?--thread II

[batter]

FYI

[batter]

Thanks for the link!

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking.... I've been warning people for several years there was a coming confluence of events in the Carribean- Panama, Cuba, this stuff in the Bahamas, Central & South America, terrorist groups, revolutionaries, drug runners, and, of course, the Red Chinee....

It's getting *real* interesting!

[batter]

Recently, it got some unfavorable publicity when a New Yorker sustained a shark attack there and lost a leg.
The US is going to loose more than a leg if we our leaders keep listening to the red team. Remember to boycott "Made in China".

[onedoug]

Confrontation - at best - sooner or later....

[Savage Beast]

Just 55 miles from Palm Beach, huh.

[IRtorqued]

bump

[america76]

This is the same China, that I was always told, that only cared about China and had no aspirations toward world domination. The question I ask myself is, were all these supposed experts just wrong, or have they been lying all this time? You just can't trust anyone anymore.

[ChaseR]

"Those nice containers used in shipping also make it much easier to smuggle weapons as well."

(Black Jade, just wondering...yes or no...do you think it is possible for the Communist Chinese to smuggle weapons in containers...Confirm or Deny please.) (Happy Thanksgiving to you Jade - and All.)

[goldilucky]

And a Happy Thanksgiving to both of you. I feel the Chinese are quite capable of smuggling weapons in such containers.

[backhoe]

I've been warning people for several years there was a coming dreadful confluence of events in the Carribean- Panama, Cuba, this stuff in the Bahamas, Central & South America, terrorist groups, revolutionaries, drug runners, and, of course, the Red Chinee....

Note the above revision...

[2sheep]

Bump.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Thanks for the heads-up...appreciate it.

[dtom]

How hard would it be for the PLA to stash containers all over the Caribbean, loaded with arms? Who was the president who gave up our interest in the Panama canal?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Sigh. Thanks for the flag, Chase. Just 55 miles from Palm Beach? And our Florida coastline the longest in the country, very hard to patrol. I'm hoping Jeb Bush takes me up on my offer to live in an unoccupied penthouse condo on the ocean and train my telescope on the horizon. (^: Happy Thanksgiving, friend.

[Gemflint]

Thanks for the heads-up! I've got family and friends on Florida's west coast. We'll be fighting those Chinese b*stards soon enough. We're already in WW III, we're just using third-world states as our proxy fighters for now...

[ChaseR]

BTTT

[ChaseR]

"...and a projected annual capacity of 1 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) — a standard measure for cargo containers... "

Lovely!

[ChaseR]

"And our Florida coastline the longest in the country, very hard to patrol."

Don't worry/don't fret...as FR poster, LoneGreenEyeshade and I know - something is coming next month - something very good and very important - "is on the way" - and it involves Chinagate!!! (and a secondary item will also take place in Dec...more great news for our country!!) (I also think that there will be no more terrorist activity of any kind -taking place on our shores. None whatsoever!!)
So, keep your chin up...be like me, lol, absolutely/positively - optimistic! (well, don't be just like me" - I come across pretty blunt sometimes..lol)

[ChaseR]

"dreadful"

I see that, I know...

[ChaseR]

"...that the PRC was or is bringing missiles into the Panama Canal."

No, nope...you missed it. Read the post again Jade, it doesn't mention anything about Panama specifically. Anyway, thanks for the good wishes on T.Giving... Chase

(Jade, I'm just curious, is English your secondary language, you seem to have an - ahhh, very nice, international quality in your posts.)

[ChaseR]

(ck my post above - do you see what I am referring to - this has been hard to pick out, but it definitely stands out- doesn't it/yep, the unique puzzle is slowly, ever-so-slowly, coming together)

[KLT]

Yes, I see what you mean.

[2sheep]

>>>Thus far no one has presented me with any facts or evidence that substantiate the assertion ...

The old "prove it to me..." propaganda tool again.  What a load of poppycock!  In this instance, Chinese poppycock.  Don't feign naivety or that you just got off the boat container ship!  Here are a couple terms for you, perhaps less familiar in Beijing than in America:

"speaks with a forked tongue" = liar.

"snake in the grass" = deceiver.

How fitting for the Chinese "Year of the Snake!" and in "Leap Year," too.  Where will China leap next?

[2sheep]

Ge 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman,
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

[ChaseR]

Jade misleading post #20:
"...of smuggling in AK47s, but missiles are not that easy to smuggle in."

Nope, won't happen! Can't let that stand. I guess we need to start from the beginning again, huh good sir. And with great pleasure, we'll be doing so.

[ChaseR]

Yea, I immediately spotted that too. Jade's post won't fly. Not a chance. The partying continues...and we have all the punch. rofl. Anyway...

[ChaseR]

(correction, Black Jades misleading post #26)

[ChaseR]

You surprise me. Anyway, you and I both know that short and medium-range missile parts can easily be stored in containers. Easily.

(running low on time for this evening Jade, so let's start with that premise)

[2sheep]

Black Jade is either a woman or a homosexual male, because she/he stated on another thread that the name "Black Jade" was taken from her favorite novel in which the heroine was named "Black Jade."  It is one of FreeRepublic's own Chinese Communist propagandists online daily to deceive you.  You play if you want.  I'm not going to waste the time.

[2sheep]

Black Jade is either a woman or a homosexual male, because she/he stated on another thread that the name "Black Jade" was taken from her favorite novel in which the heroine was named "Black Jade."  It is one of FreeRepublic's own Chinese Communist propagandists online daily to deceive you.  You play if you want.  I'm not going to waste the time.

[Brian Allen]

A, "Thanks sheeps," bump.

[goldilucky]

Oh yes, and it gets lovelier as time goes by.

[Brian Allen]

That says it all. I ask for facts and evidence to back up an assertion and you call it a "propaganda tool." You obvious have no interest in rational argument.

Is Psychopathological Projection Syndrome fairly endemic around your part of conquered, captive, colonised, enslaved, occupied, brutalized and casually mass-murdered "china" -- or is yours an isolated case?

For, in case you hadn't noticed, you -- in your Asian-inflected bloken Engerish -- alternate between a Joseph Goebells-like ceaselessly spewing forth of the mindless mis and disinformation of a "chinese" propagandist -- and Absolutely unfounded accusations and allegations that those who take you to task [For just one example] ".... obvious [sic] have no interest in rational argument!"

Take note that it is you who ".... obvious [sic] have no interest in rational argument" and you who constantly spew the pro-Chicom and anti-American line of bullsh*t on boards provided for Americans of a particular political bent to discuss the nuances of their conservatism.

Clearly, given your impressive computer resources and the timing of your posts, you work at this full time and, given your lack of imagination and the sameness of your line of crap, are working from a ChiCom worksheet.

From the worksheet, that is, of a mob of mass-murdering gangster bastards whose medievally-backward and primitive grouping of captured and enslaved territories and peoples, [AKA "china"] in all of their much-vaunted "5,000 year history" have yet to come up with either a civilized form of government or an ability to keep their thieving bloody hands off other people's property -- or even [Except for the small problem of having no military unit any good at anything more than the gutless and cravenly cowardly mass-murder of "china's" own unarmed citizens (Ninety millions already dead -- and counting)] off other people's countries!

[2sheep]

Brian, you have the loveliest way with words!  I hereby nominate you for Essay of the Week.  Perhaps it could be called something like, "The Outing of a Communist Chinese Spy."

[ChaseR]

"Black Jade is either a woman or a homosexual male..."

Rofl/Rofl/Rofl - Jade does paste excellent posts, but I'm confident that our Communist Chinese Jade will be here very quickly to defend himself....

[ChaseR]

"Perhaps it could be called something like, "The Outing of a Communist Chinese Spy."

My sentiments...Exactly. Then, being almost fooled, I gave in and told Jade - that I didn't think he was any kind of Communist sympathizer, then, just three days ago, I received information from a FR poster/policewoman - who states that her final criminal analysis - is that Jade is a Chinese Communist - so hence, you're correct - Communist Chinese sleeper spy. (sorry Jade, but you do post/paste good material)