US companies do not want to bid on Panama airfield
Panamanian President Reaffirms Ties With Taiwan
U.S. consumers buying Chinese goods at Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Home Depot, fuel incursion into Panama
China's UK, Netherland and Indonesia connections
Posted on 12/31/2002 8:32:51 AM PST by j_accuse
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:59:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
PANAMA CITY — A country known for its hats, bananas and dictators has become a battleground for Taiwan and China, wealthy adversaries aggressively bidding for friends and influence a hemisphere away.
Panama is one of the few countries that has diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But the presence of the Panama Canal gives China too big a stake to walk away in protest.
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Cynthia Watson, a professor at the Naval War College in Washington.
"But are we worried about the Chinese in Vancouver?
Are we worried about the billions in Chinese merchandise purchased in Red China (instead of Taiwan) by Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Crate & Barrel and sold to US consumers?
China and Taiwan are courting Panama's ethnic Chinese community, about 200,000 people in a nation of 2.8 million, whose ancestors arrived 150 years ago as laborers.
...who by the way, were shipped there by a US company building a transcontinental railroad...
Li Yonglu, China's trade representative and de facto ambassador to Panama, dismissed Taiwan's efforts as ineffective. He said that 95 percent of Chinese-Panamanians support reunification of Taiwan with mainland China because of the community's ancestral origins in the mainland.
Imperial Mandarin Yonglu forgets that 95% of the Chinese-Panamanians are in Panama to escape Communism and would not go back to the Middle Kingdom.
Even though the US and South Africa has abandoned Taiwan and recognized China, Panama and Israel remain stubborn in their support of anti-Communist Taiwan ...
Then it would be war between the US and China as it would violate "The Monroe Doctrine."
US companies do not want to bid on Panama airfield
Panamanian President Reaffirms Ties With Taiwan
U.S. consumers buying Chinese goods at Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Home Depot, fuel incursion into Panama
China's UK, Netherland and Indonesia connections
The Panamanians working on the Canal would not willingly go on strike: it would be a lockout, with full pay, to avoid alienating the workers.
No, dingbat, because Vancouver isn't a strategic waterway, vital to our national and economic security. Sheesh...and this lady works at the Naval War College? We are soooooooo screwed.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
You don't know a lot do you?
US needs to do it, then everyone will.
China will be mad but can do nothing.
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