Wilkes, the NNSA spokesman, said the Bahamian government dictated that the U.S. give the contract to Hutchison. "It's their country, their port. The driver of the mobile carrier is the contractor selected by their government. We had no say or no choice," he said.
Not exactly what the headline claims.
My God.
Was it Marx or Lenin who said that when we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope????
Geeeze
NOT!
Don't they do something at the Panama Canal also?
Here we go again, dancing to the MSM's tune.
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Oh my God! Bush is a treasonous bastard!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? [huff, huff]
He's selling out our country to the CHICOMS! He should be thrown in jail!!! [gasp, wheeze]
:-)
Capitalism is a bitch.
Deal with it!
When the Red Chi-coms used this false front "firm" to get into Freeport, I knew there would eventually be trouble. I was right.
Without China and Russia, the world economy would cease to exist.
Oh, THIS is rich.
How quickly time flies.. more slack being taken out of the rope?
Hutchison Port Holdings
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Phyllis Schlafly
Red China: New Gatekeeper Of Our Canal
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/1999/oct99/99-10-20.html
October 20, 1999
Jimmy Carter never would have been able to ram through his two treaties giving away our Panama Canal if the Senate in 1978 could have looked into the future and known that, when the U.S. Flag is lowered on December 31, 1999, Red China would become its gatekeeper. But that's what's scheduled to happen unless Congress takes immediate action to prevent it.
Don't expect the Clinton Administration to interfere with China's stunning beachhead in the Western Hemisphere. Clinton is hopelessly indebted to the Chinese and their allies in Indonesia for financing his presidential elections in 1992 and 1996.
China didn't need to send an invading army. Because of what is euphemistically called "free trade," China has plenty of cash to buy and bribe its way into our domain.
Communist China is the greatest national security threat to America today and in the foreseeable future. At a major meeting in Beijing in 1994, China designated the United States as its primary global rival.
China is rapidly building a modern war machine with 18 long-range and 140 intermediate and medium range missiles. It's based on espionage, theft, trade deals that include technology transfers, and cash provided by a $60 billion-a-year favorable balance of trade.
Every month, China collects up to $6 billion in U.S. cash by selling its slave-labor products to Americans, but China buys only $1 billion worth of U.S. goods. The Chinese pocket the $5 billion a month difference and use it to build their military-industrial complex.
In order to cash in on the cash-rich Chinese, Panama manipulated the bidding process, holding repeated rounds of bids, for leases for the U.S.-built ports of Cristobal on the Atlantic end of the canal and Balboa on the Pacific end. The 50-year leases were awarded to a Chinese Hong Kong corporation named Hutchison Whampoa operating under the name Hutchison Port Holdings.
Hutchison Whampoa had come in only fourth in the bidding, after the Japanese firm Kawasaki/I.T.S., the U.S. firm Bechtel, and the Panamanian American company M.I.T. For exclusive control of the two ports, Hutchison Whampoa agreed to pay $22.5 million a year plus what one Panamanian called "bucket loads of money" under the table, and Panama's Law No. 5 was passed on January 16, 1997 to confirm the deal.
Law No. 5 blatantly violates the Panama Canal Neutrality Treaty, Article V, which stipulated that only Panama is allowed in defense sites. By giving Hutchison "priority" for its business operations, Law No. 5, Art. 2.11d, also violates the treaty's Article VI, which guaranteed "expedited" and "head of line" passage for U.S. warships.
Art. 2.10c of Law No. 5 gives Hutchison Whampoa the "right" to operate piloting services, tugs and work boats, which translates into control of all the Canal's pilots. Art. 2.10e grants the "right" to control the roads to strategic areas of the Canal, and Art. 2.12a grants priority to all piers, including private piers.
Art. 2.8 gives Hutchison Whampoa the right to "transfer contract rights" to any third party "registered" in Panama. Those rights could be transferred to China, or even Iraq, Iran or Libya.
The Hutchison leases even violate Panama's own constitution, Art. 274, which requires a plebiscite on Canal matters. None was held.
Law No. 5, Art. 2.1, also grants "first option" to Hutchison Whampoa to take over the U.S. Rodman Naval Station, the Pacific port facility capable of handling any warship. The Chinese will then have the power to exclude U.S. warships while admitting Communist warships.
The billionaire chairman of Hutchison Whampoa, Li Ka-shing, was a business and political buddy of the late Deng Xiaoping and now has the same close relationship with both Jiang Zemin and the Riady financial empire of Indonesia. No doubt that's why he controls most of China's commercial ports and seaborne trade as well as most of the dock space in Hong Kong.
Li was China's chief agent in facilitating China's smooth takeover of Hong Kong in 1997. Hutchison Whampoa partnered in several enterprises with China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), which is directly controlled by the People's Liberation Army, and served as a middleman in China's deals with the U.S. firms Hughes and Loral.
The Carter-Torrijos Treaties, bad as they were, gave the United States the right to defend the Panama Canal militarily. The Chinese leases, however, will make it impossible to do this without directly confronting the Chinese Communist regime.
In 1996, when China was "testing" missiles to scare Taiwan before its election, the United States sent warships to the area and China responded by impudently threatening to "rain down fire" on Los Angeles from its China-based ICBMs. Would Communist China do the same if it bases its shorter-range missiles in Panama?
China will be able to ship its shorter-range missiles across the Pacific, unload them at Balboa, and conceal them in warehouses until the time is ripe. If Congress doesn't act immediately, we are heading for a Panama Missile Crisis like the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
Fighting the battle against the Panama giveaway treaties in 1978 helped Ronald Reagan and a dozen Republican Senators to be elected in 1980. Saving us from Red China as the Panama Canal gatekeeper could elect other Republicans in 2000. Who will step up to the plate?
I am begining to believe that our government should legalise the use of drugs because some of the decisions they have made lately Involving national Security sure make them appear as though they were using them at the time.
What's going on with the Bush Administration?
Another Dubai Deal Under Scrutiny
By Chad Groening March 20, 2006
(AgapePress) - One of the nation's prominent military analysts says he is concerned that the United Arab Emirates is trying to purchase a British manufacturing company that makes engine components for U.S. military aircraft and main battle tanks.
Lt. Col. (Ret., U.S. Army) Bob Maginnis says due to security concerns, there is a U.S. law that limits the amount of military equipment that can be produced overseas. Now he says the Bush administration has informed Congress about a deal involving the U.A.E. company Dubai International Capital, which describes itself as a world leader in manufacturing highly complex castings for the aerospace, gas turbine, and petrochemical industries.
"This Dubai International company ... has acquired London-based Doncasters Group, which produces engine components and blade turbines for military platforms," he observes. "That, of course, is the type of thing that we monitor -- and that's what the purpose of that law is."
This is the second U.A.E.-based company that has been in the news lately. The first involved the potential operations management of six major U.S. ports by an Arab-owned group that had purchased another British firm. In that case, Dubai Ports World had to agree to sell its interest in the U.S. ports.
According to Maginnis, this more recent deal is also being examined. "Apparently it's been reviewed by the same people who looked at the six-port controversy with Dubai Port World, the organization that of course has been much in the news," he says.
Maginnis admits he is concerned about the number of foreign companies involved in purchasing U.S. resources. He points out that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has greatly reduced its oversight of foreign transactions of this kind.
"The security review of those purchases has declined dramatically from 204 such investigations in 1989 to only 65 last year," he states. "And yet the international trade and the acquisition of multinational conglomerates has radically increased across the world."
Maginnis says he is pleased that a Treasury Department official has announced there will be an additional review of the Dubai parts manufacturer because of "unresolved security concerns." Bloomberg.com reports that Dubai International Capital and Doncasters have agreed to delay the $1.2 billion transaction for up to two months from March 31 while an investigation takes place
At first I thought this was a joke or something, But now this is serious. For those who dont know, The company is runned by Li Kai something I forgot, Who has serious connection in the CCP and PLA, Also the guy also controls the Panama Canal.
Are they out of the F@#$ING MINDS up there in Washington??
General Joe Chinaman : Harrow? Is this Wong Wei of Hutchison Whampoa in Ros Angeres? Yes?
WonWei : Yes, it's me
General Joe Chinaman : You turn off your detecter tomowwow ok? We have ze special derivery for America zhen ok?
Repeat the lines above 50 times! This is what is happening!
But but but the Chinese already run 30% of Kalifornia's cargo terminals. Where's the outcry?
Cricket Cricket cricket cricket...
Between the proposed amnesty for illegal aliens and this nonchalant attitude about port security, getting the grassroots out this year is not being made any easier.