Red China Opens NAFTA Ports in Mexico

Human Events Online ^ | Jul 18, 2006 | Jerome R. Corsi

[sully777]

Profit over sovereignty. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan are great example of free trade capitalism winning over American sovereign interest and thus preventing war. After all, the argument by some FReepers and diehard globalists is that China would never destroy a good thing. Why would they want to stop making money?

[sonyapeking]

well the "the chinese crap" is what the great united states of america is buying and using...haha

[dennisw]

What you say is true

[hedgetrimmer]

Red China Attains Global Control of Ports

Overlooked during America's preoccupation with the Dubai ports deal is a much more imminent threat - China's methodical campaign to gain control of global ports that are strategically positioned to support military or economic actions against the United States - a move that has gone virtually unnoticed.

The powerful Chinese-owned Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. is now the world's biggest cargo terminal operator, according to London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants. It also is the world's largest port owner.

Hutchison Port Holdings has assumed control of scores of potential economic choke points, including 169 berths at 41 ports worldwide. These facilities control about 15 percent of global maritime container traffic.

Some of Hutchison's ports lie near key sea lines of communication, such as the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal and the eastern coast of the United States. Of the eight international regions with choke points labeled by the Department of Defense as "U.S. lifelines and transit regions," Hutchison has ports in six.

"Amidst the furor over a U.A.E. corporate takeover of major U.S. and Canadian seaports, scant notice has been given to the longstanding and continuing threat from the PRC/Triad [People's Republic of China and Chinese mobsters] 'business' presence at seaports around the world, including the U.S. and Canada," stated a top-level Canadian port security analyst.

[dennisw]

well the "the chinese crap" is what the great united states of america is buying and using...haha

How about you? Do you buy and use Chinese craps?

[1rudeboy]

Right about this time every year, the lead-time for a boxcar to be delivered to a siding in Hammond, Indiana was two months . . . and going on three before the worst was over.

[stephenjohnbanker]

When it comes to the federal government, "ability" never enters into the equation : )

[sonyapeking]

well I buy and use chinese products all the time...haha...

[dennisw]

Hutchinson Ports Holding (HPH) owns Panama Ports Co., which operates the ports of Cristobal and Balboa which are located at each end of the Panama Canal. HPH also operates the industrial deepwater port of Lazaro Cardenas (where Chinese imports will arrive to be transshipped to Kansas City for all the USA) in the Mexican State of Michoacan, as well as the Mexican port at Manzanillo, also along the west coast of Mexico, north of Lazaro Cardenas.

[sonyapeking]

well i'd say "Well done, China"...keep up the good work.

[hedgetrimmer]

Except America as a country was never designed to get all its goods from foreign countries. The inherent problem in arguing that our import system has capacity limitations, covers up the fact that too much stuff is coming in from foreign countries. This flies in the face of the concept of American independence, don't you think?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Are you a student at the University of Beijing?

[dennisw]

I like and respect Chinese culture. I wish the Chinese government wasn't using Iran and North Korea to fight us. This is evil and degenerate behavior

[dennisw]

Except America as a country was never designed to get all its goods from foreign countries. The inherent problem in arguing that our import system has capacity limitations, covers up the fact that too much stuff is coming in from foreign countries. This flies in the face of the concept of American independence, don't you think?

OF COURSE!! This flies in the face of American do-it-yourself sprit
We used to export a lot more than we import. We were a creditor nation. Now we are debtor nation and shamelessly import like crazy
But bear in mind the Chinese component of our trade deficit isn't growing nearly as fast as the oil/natural gas imports. $70-80 oil is impacting more than China.

[blackie]

[sonyapeking]

nee...I am just a college student in Beijing... haha...having a nice ride here...

[sonyapeking]

well i don't exactly know the politics behind all these moves...but on the issues of North Korea and Iran, China just holds different views from the U.S. on how to solve these problems... such as diplomacy and dialogue...

What benefit can China get if North Korea possess nuclear power and perhaps grow strong enough to stand up to China...Surely China doesn't want that happen, does it?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Thanks Blackie. Long time, no see!

[stephenjohnbanker]

"What benefit can China get if North Korea possess nuclear power and perhaps grow strong enough to stand up to China...Surely China doesn't want that happen, does it?"

Probably not. But I don't see how anyone can deal with NK when the leader is insane.

[sonyapeking]

hahaha..."the leader is insane"? well,that's how he is by your standards...He is just doing what he has to do to confront those countries who are hostile to it...