Wider Panama Canal Would Aid Chinese

Human Events Online ^ | Sep 05, 2006 | Jerome Corsi

[Trupolitik]

I think this is an interesting take. I have family originally from China, and they feel the economic boom in China is good, but the US is not helping push China toward democratic rights (which includes some modicum of land and labor rights and due process). Furthermore, this is an issue of national security in that as we become more and more dependent on nondemocratic nations for our manufacturing base, we become their servants.

[100-Fold_Return]

Panama is planning to build a deeper, wider Panama Canal to allow Communist Chinese super-containerships carrying cheap 21st century slave-labor under-market goods to have direct access to the Gulf of Mexico and key NAFTA/CAFTA ports such as Miami.

Let's me guess...hmmmmmm...oh, I know: all going to WallyWorld to run out mom and pop businesses

[Izzy Dunne]

through the 1,000-foot long and 110-foot wide canal.

Funny, I always thought that canal was a bit over 50 MILES long...

Must be the oceans rise, due to gloobal warming, no doubt.

[1rudeboy]

Get the popcorn. I wonder what the U.S. can do to keep Panama from expanding the Canal, short of the military option.

[oceanview]

actually, its likely cars. they need some heavy ocean transport ability to bring cars and trucks back over, as the auto industry transitions there.

[A. Pole]

Panama is planning to build a deeper, wider Panama Canal to allow Communist Chinese super-containerships carrying cheap 21st century slave-labor under-market goods to have direct access to the Gulf of Mexico and key NAFTA/CAFTA ports such as Miami.

It will help American consumers, and Walmart.

"Let London manufacture those fine fabrics of hers to her heart's content; let Holland her chambrays; Florence her cloth; the Indies their beaver and vicuna; Milan her brocade, Italy and Flanders their linens...so long as our capital can enjoy them; the only thing it proves is that all nations train their journeymen for Madrid, and that Madrid is the queen of Parliaments, for all the world serves her and she serves nobody."

(Prominent Spanish official - Alfonso Nunez de Castro in 1675)

[1rudeboy]

The Japanese appear to be transitioning their auto industry here quite well.

[Toddsterpatriot]

The day under-market goods

Under-market? Does Jerome mean cheap?

[Taylor42]

And this is a wild guess, they want us to pay for it...

[TexasCajun]

President Jimmy Carter Signed the Panama Canal Treaty September 7, 1977

Worst President ping

[dljordan]

Maybe they're talking about the locks.

[Toddsterpatriot]

"Let London manufacture those fine fabrics of hers to her heart's content; let Holland her chambrays; Florence her cloth; the Indies their beaver and vicuna; Milan her brocade, Italy and Flanders their linens...so long as our capital can enjoy them; the only thing it proves is that all nations train their journeymen for Madrid, and that Madrid is the queen of Parliaments, for all the world serves her and she serves nobody."

(Prominent Spanish official - Alfonso Nunez de Castro in 1675)

Everybody should make all their own stuff.

(A. Pole - Prominent Freeper doom and gloomer since May 10, 1999)

[oceanview]

only because of import quotas dating back to the 80s, and the light truck tarriff. the japanese were confronted on this trade issue, and figured that if they wanted to profit in this market, they had to invest here for production. the same with some of the Germans.

will we do the same to chinese made cars?

[Red Badger]

We could nuke it, but then they wouldn't need a canal at all anymore............The isthmus would be a peninsula........

[1rudeboy]

Import quotas that expired in the mid to late 80's are responsible for the Japanese building plants here now? Impressive.

[Comstock1]

Why would we want to stop them? The last time I checked, China wasn't the only country that had large ships. Don't forget this is coming from Jerome Corsi. His flat out mistakes on NAFTA and the TTC make me suspicious of anything he writes.

[chilepepper]

actually the canal is a complicated combination of manmade lakes and locks, not one long lock...

[Paul Ross]

Funny, I always thought that canal was a bit over 50 MILES long...

They were undoubtedly referring not to the length of the canal in toto, but the length of the canal LOCKS.

[Ready4Freddy]

I haven't seen any rubber dogshiite or faux vomit factories going up in the US lately...

will we do the same to chinese made cars?

[Paul Ross]

Furthermore, this is an issue of national security in that as we become more and more dependent on nondemocratic nations for our manufacturing base, we become their servants.

PRECISELY.