You shouldn’t have stopped there. The shipping company Hutchinson-Whampoa has constructed a deep water port in the Caribbean, which could be used to interfere with our Atlantic fleet, and the Chinese have been very involved with both SA and African countries. Guaranteed any hostilities between the US and China and the Panama canal would be shut down.
The USN is very aware of the international hanky-panky, and the Bush administration pulled a fast one by cultivating Musharraf of Pakistan, so that after the Chinese built him a major deep water port, the Pakistanis opened it up to US warships.
The US does have a major disadvantage with having only two major naval port facilities in the Pacific capable of major repairs, refuel and rearmament of our warships. Even Subic Bay was not capable of the full range of Pacific Fleet needs.
We are also cultivating the Indian navy, in something called the “thousand ship navy”, which will represent a much more local challenge to China’s ambitions. I even suggested that instead of mothballing the USS Kennedy, we should have sold it to the Indians to reverse engineer, which would let them leapfrog the Chinese aircraft carrier technology, but at the same time would still be inferior to our fleet.
It has been argued that the 21st century will be called the Anglosphere Century, to include Britain, North America, The Carribean, Australia, and India.
More important than NATO ?