If Rubio Doesn’t Act, He Risks Giving the CCP Dominance over South American Shipping

American Thinker ^ | 24 Apr, 2025 | Jerome R. Corsi

[MtnClimber]

As China’s Belt and Road initiative tightens worldwide, the U.S. has a rare opportunity to stymie its inroads into Latin America.

“We often say that to get rich, we must first build roads; but in coastal areas, to get rich, we must also first build ports.” – Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the China Central Committee

The Chinese Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop CopiaPort-E, Chile’s deep-water port on the Pacific, raises national security questions given that Todd Callender, Esq., the CEO of the insurance conglomerate Cotswold Group in Barbados, would prefer to sell to the United States the rights to develop the port.* Is the Trump administration serious about protecting U.S. interests in the Western Hemisphere?

As reported in American Thinker, China covets ownership of CopiePort-E to serve as the Pacific Ocean landing pad for China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” in South America. The status quo is that the Trump administration is taking active steps to wrest control of the Panama Canal from China, even as China’s state-owned shipping giant, China Ocean Shipping Group (Cosco), in November 2024, purchased a 60 percent stake in Chancay, Peru, for $1.6 billion.

That purchase means that China stands to gain a commanding position on Pacific shipping from South America should the Trump administration fail to act promptly to negotiate with Callender’s on a U.S. offer to develop CopiaPort-E. China’s military ambitions in South America also remain clear, given China’s resentment that Argentina’s President Javier Milei reversed his predecessors’ decision to establish a naval base near the Strait of Magellan. Milei decided, instead, to coordinate closely with the Trump administration to develop the base.

President Trump has brought the Monroe Doctrine into the 21st Century by suggesting that Canada can become the 51st state, Greenland must become a US

[MtnClimber]

We really do need to counter the Chinese activities in South America. Brazil may already be lost.

[Red6]

I thought nations don’t have a “sphere of influence” and it’s wrong to think like that? (Sarc)

So I was told by some highly informed individuals here. Hahaha

Of course all nations have their sphere of influence and ours is the biggest of them all. We claim all of Central and South America essentially, the Pacific Rim, Europe, and much of the Middle East as ours.

That said, of course we can’t let the canal fall under the control of a nation with interests in conflict with ours.

[ComputerGuy]

Simmer down, Corsi.

[Brian Griffin]

History says dealing with Communist China can be risky.

We need to make most of what we consume.

Why Latin American ports should even be an important issue to the US escapes me.

[9YearLurker]

Todd Callendar? He’s been part of the “health freedom movement” through Covid—and to me seemingly an offshore intel operative in that he has made some bizarre claims in that role.

[mewzilla]

Wish someone would take a good look at who's operating many of our major ports...

From 2021...

Canada's CPPIB to buy Ports America from Oaktree to further infrastructure push

From 2025...

Canada’s Pension Giant Taps Ben Meng, Calpers ex-CIO, to Steer Active Bets

From 2023...

MPs call for new measures to rein in Canadian pension investments in China Committee calls for a list of Chinese companies barred from Canadian pension fund investments

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Todd Callendar? He's been part of the “health freedom movement” through Covid—and to me seemingly an offshore intel operative in that he has made some bizarre claims in that role."

The name leapt out of Corsi's article at me as well. "Rubio’s apparent failure to pay attention to Todd Callender’s offer..." Apparent failure?

After four years of lunacy from Biden-Harris and the Democrats, this nation seems in recovery mode, slowly and perhaps not so slowly taking apart Deep State entities and the Left's funding sources. It is and remains a big job.

"Rubio's apparent failure" is prose which now will amend Corsi and his chums to grifter status in media. This is confirmed already at the bottom of the article ---

*Disclosure: Todd Callender, Esq., the Chief Executive Officer of the Cotswold Group, is the lead author of Dr. Corsi’s newest book, published on April 4, Disease X and Military Martial Law: Defeating the Globalist Plan to Depopulate the World and Enslave the Remnant.

GodsFiveStones.com is a tax-deductible 501(c)3 foundation created by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., and Karladine Graves, M.D., managed by Capstone Legacy Foundation. As reported on GodsFiveStones.com, Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., has discovered cryptographic algorithms in the State Board of Elections voter registration databases in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, and Oklahoma.

Corsi's tax-exempt foundation' s Form 990

Gotta have a gimmick....

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

An excellent catch regarding those Canadians. Kudos.

Remember a Canadian involved in the Clinton-Obama Uranium One deal? That eventually went to Russia?

[9YearLurker]

Corsi of course was a longtime Kissinger lackey.

Remember also when he was briefly the Infowars DC correspondent in Trump I—and then latched onto providing “interpretations” of Q anon posts?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Remember also when he was briefly the Infowars DC correspondent in Trump I—and then latched onto providing “interpretations” of Q anon posts?"

Yup.

And then....

Corsi v. Infowars October 13, 2021 -- "Assault, Libel and Slander"

[9YearLurker]

Oh, I missed that one!

[9YearLurker]

From the Magistrate Judge’s writing on the case:

“With regard to Jones’ statement calling Corsi a “spook, back and forth with different agencies,” … “spook” is a colloquial term for a person employed in the intelligence community, and is generally not taken as a derogatory term. It is akin to referring to a police officer as a “cop.” Further, Corsi’s own affidavit establishes that the statement is literally true, in that Corsi worked with several intelligence agencies and had a top secret security clearance.

To the extent Corsi contends that the implication of the statement was that he had assisted the Mueller investigation in an attempt to harm Roger Stone and Donald Trump, that implication is not apparent from anything alleged in the Amended Complaint, and Corsi fails to demonstrate how, even assuming the implication was made, the statement is defamatory…”

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/31/jerome-corsi-larry-klayman-seem-on-track-to-losing-libel-trademark-lawsuit-against-infowars-and-alex-jones/

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "...assisted the Mueller investigation ...."

One thing about the Trump presidency is that he is a big, beautiful "lame duck," meaning he is no longer running for office. In spite of the BS one reads.

Like the dastardly Obama's remark to Medveyev about "more flexibility" in a second term, our president's "make America first" is the antidote -- and hopefully an effective one -- to the infection which is the political grift and corruption flowing through public offices and bureaucracies, as in so much of the media.

More flexibility to root out the corrupt sounds just fine to my bride and to me.

As to the failed "right-left" posturing, here's supposedly 'right' and 'left' together -- outed forever. Iconic. Corrupt. "Forward...."

[9YearLurker]

We can hope. But with our VP and other tech bros the creation of Bilderberg committee chair Thiel, we’ve got plenty to keep an eye on—even if Team Trump pleases us by turning up the heat.

For example, MAHA RFK is using the autism question to have everyone’s every shred of medical record put together in one monstrous government database. What could possibly go wrong?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

To your comment, agreed. There is "plenty to keep an eye on...."

Skepticism in much is not a bad stance, and doing one's own "looking around" is well advised.

[mewzilla]

There’s a reason that Christopher Steele, John McCain, and Tim Kaine went to that security conference in Halifax in 2016.

Why Canada...?

[mewzilla]

I hate to break it to you, but thanks to Bush’s Porkulus and the EMR regs, that ship sailed many moons ago.

Electronic medical records and ICD-10 codes are just what Deep State’s doctor ordered.

[PIF]

They will not, just like the offer from the Congo for access to all its vast mineral wealth was ignored.

[9YearLurker]

They’ve been the dream from Hillarycare through Obamacare, but only now are they getting it done to the level of full integration and AI manipulation for surveillance and control.

I hate to break it to you.