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Chinese soldiers in the Panama Canal! LIVE Webcam! - Thread 4
Webcam at Miraflores Locks ^ | Published: 24 hours Author: Panama Canal Authority

Posted on 10/06/2001 2:18:35 PM PDT by ChaseR

Let's all continue to discuss if Communist China has already - or will in the future, smuggle weapons, munitions, arms and short or medium-range missiles (or missile parts) into Panama??


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To: ChaseR
Hello, ChaseR. Are you there? And just when I'm getting my second wind.
61 posted on 10/06/2001 9:06:04 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Snow Bunny
China has over 1 billion people. Now they have the Panama Canal. Do you think they would use the canal to transport thousands/tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands of willing Chinese to populate the area? They have enough 'surplus' people in their own country.

Dumping them in Central America would make it easier to feed the rest of their people at home, while strengthening their influence in Central America. Then they spread into Mexico, where they are welcomed with open arms by the Anti-American arm of the government. A few years after they can start crossing over into the US.

I have the Reynolds Aluminun Foil by my side, all ready to go. Should I start making a hat?

62 posted on 10/06/2001 11:30:53 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: ChaseR
After the past week's events...given the [apparent] support of Mr. Putin to the cause at hand?
I wondered why the United States has sent so much towards the PRC (who it's said will not support us), in the way of our commerce; yet not one iota to those who have & are who're in desperate economic straights.

It just doesn't make sense.

63 posted on 10/07/2001 12:45:16 AM PDT by Landru
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To: ChaseR
BUMP
64 posted on 10/07/2001 4:58:15 AM PDT by abigail2
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To: ChaseR
"rofl" lmao...
65 posted on 10/07/2001 1:46:23 PM PDT by Pipers
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To: ChaseR
I stand by my statement.
66 posted on 10/07/2001 1:56:58 PM PDT by Aura Of The Blade
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To: Captainpaintball; ChaseR
Excuse me Captainpaintball, I did not say the Chinese would be moving the civilian Chinese into Panama. But if you cannot see that the canal is a hot spot of possibilities.... to me that is NOT tin foil hat but a slice of reality.
67 posted on 10/07/2001 11:00:44 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: ChaseR
We might not be able to save Tiwan if our assets are spread too thin, ( thanks and F*** you B.C. ), but surely we can retake the canal if need be?

Oh, and similar sentiments to J. Carter.

CS
72 posted on 10/08/2001 1:18:38 AM PDT by CaptSkip
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To: ChaseR; Kerberos;goldilucky ;KLT ;backhoe ;flamefront ;Ragtime Cowgirl ; Mudboy Slim ;GretchenEE
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73 posted on 10/08/2001 2:05:43 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: Snow Bunny
George Will within the day: Consider It: China could attack Taiwan
74 posted on 10/08/2001 3:57:51 PM PDT by flamefront
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To: flamefront
Thank you so much for this link .
75 posted on 10/08/2001 4:04:34 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: Snow Bunny,ChaseR
Saying extra prayers for the potential problems with China. Prayers for wisdom and China not taking advantage of the terrorist attack to re-take Taiwan. If this happens, they will be starting WWIII - and someone in the Chinese military must possess enough wisdom to know how the world will judge them in the end.

Ping for vigilance, and for faith.

76 posted on 10/08/2001 4:14:48 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
GREAT post my friend. Thank you sooooo much.
77 posted on 10/08/2001 4:19:15 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: Snow Bunny
Anytime, Mrs. Bunny. Hugs. (^:
78 posted on 10/08/2001 4:48:18 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Black Jade
Ref post #70.

Black Jade, you are en extremely well informed person. Thank you form sharing your knowledge with the rest.

It is my understanding that these military facilities were either shut down or converted to civilian use and sold as commercial real estate.

The economy in Panama has tanked since we gringos left and has gotten worse since the the U.S. economy took a dive. (I decided to stay since I was born here and have family and friends here.) Therefore, the Panamanian Government is having a big problem selling off the housing units in Fort Clayton. I don’t know what is going on at Howard Air Force Base or Fort Kobbe. While they had planned to sell the houses there, I haven’t heard of any movement. The quarters at Fort Sherman were turned into, for lack of a better word, apartment hotels, where families use to like to go for the weekend. I don’t know how that is doing at this point. What use to be the School of the Americas has been turned into a hotel by an international hotel chain. Again, I don’t know how it is doing. I can’t imagine it has been very profitable because who would want to go to the middle of nowhere and stay at an expensive hotel? I also do not know what has happened with Fort Gulick. They were trying to sell the homes there, but I don’t know how successful that has been. Most people who work in Colon prefer to live in Panama City and travel back and forth. Quarry Heights was going to be a diplomatic resident site, but that didn’t work. I read sometime back where those large wooden homes required a maintenance of $18,000 a year with all the wood rot and termites that fall upon these types of homes. I’m not saying this was the reason. It was just an observation. The office buildings that were constructed of concrete are being used as Panamanian Government offices. I also haven’t heard of any movement in the sale of houses at what use to be Rodman Naval Base. There could be, but everything is very slow economically speaking. Cocoli will probably have to be bulldozed since it’s all wooden houses. Albrook Air Station was the first to be put up for sale while the economy was still okay, so I believe that all or most of the units were sold.

79 posted on 10/08/2001 5:28:23 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Snow Bunny
bump to thread 4!
80 posted on 10/08/2001 7:32:28 PM PDT by goldilucky
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