demkicker, Yes or No on the three vital questions. Thanks.
".....the activities of Hutchison/Whampoa should have been disturbing. The alarm bells were sounded in two congressional aides' candid assessment of Chinese activities in Panama. Based on a fact-finding tour of Panama, Al Santoli, an aide to Representative Dana Rohrabacher, and Jim Doran, an aide to Senator Jesse Helms, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
concluded that U. S. national security is at risk in the canal." The China Threat
Bill Gertz
pg. 93
Sad to say, Yes, Yes, Yes......