China has controlled, through Hutchinson-Whampoa, both entrances to the Panama Canal since shortly after Operation Just Cause unseated Noriega.
~~~~~~ Wow. I don’t know how I missed that! That’s YUGE! Was it well publicized at the time? Wow.
Well, we were assigned there and were at Albrook AFS when the mortars and tracers started firing (0050 on 20 Dec 89), so I may have been more tuned in than some.
Colonel, USAF TJAGCR (ret)