[WoofDog123]

" but more than that is the chokehold China currently has on the Panama Canal"

How is having H-W and the minority entities through PPC lease balboa and cristobal ports a 'chokehold?'

[Californiajones]

No property rights in China. HW has ties to Chinese military . How about a malfunction on either side of the Canal? Why are the Chinese so interested in being there? Why is HW (I think its HW) building/built another shipping port in the Caribbean? Why is COSCO, Chinese merchant marine fleet, tagging Evergreen, Taiwan's premier shipping concern? Why are the Chinese in the Straits of Gibraltar? Why has Panama become so Chinese there is Chinese language newspapers there? Stronghold for potential military interests in Carribean, Cuba etc., chokehold on Panama Canal. Sorry so random, but these are questions that go begging when thinking about Chinese activities 90 miles off our shore and on our former Canal Zone. Oh, yeah, and they bought up the land where our former Southern Command post was in Panama. Really, what do you think? I'm just a gal from CA.