Posted on 01/08/2022 8:46:51 AM PST by elpadre
from the article:
“...As of December 2021, 19 out of 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean had signed up for the Belt and Road. In addition to Cuba, they include Jamaica and six other island states in the Caribbean; El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama in Central America; and Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay in South America....”
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Testing...
This post should be considered along side yesterday’s post:
“US playing spoiler to China in Horn of Africa —— If there is mayhem in Ethiopia, China’s Belt and Road in the Horn of Africa could be slowed or even derailed.”
All I walked away from that news was that it was a hot mess.
Can you connect the dots?
I don’t know about dots, but I am amazed that China is spreading influence and control all over the world and we in America, thanks to a one dimensional media, are not aware. And those who realize seem to just shrug their shoulders. The focus is on Russia, but the real danger for the US is China. I am just a 90 year old and not very smart, but I sense a deliberate and serious neglect on the part of our leaders.
That’s my take, as well. Heck, it is right under our noses, in the universities and corporations. And what do we do? Ignore it even when one of our “leaders” is caught bedding one of their spies.
We need a Monroe Doctrine II that expresses U.S. foreign policy as opposition, by force if necessary, to extension of CCP control or influence in the western hemisphere.
Monroe...James Monroe...White Courtesy Phone.
Stick it to the gringos while the Chicoms overfish off their coasts.
Then there’s Chile. A Castro-like new President.
Where’s a helicopter when you need one.
Monroe Doctrine
“The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for colonization by any European powers,” Monroe continued. Any attempt by a European power to exert its influence in the Western Hemisphere would, from then on, be seen by the United States as a threat to its security.
Bump
Strategic thinking has never been a State Department highlight.
Forget China. What about the Russians in Kazakhstan. The Russians are the real threat. The Chinese are our friends.
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“Strategic thinking has never been a State Department highlight.”
Isn’t that the truth!
Anyone the sense now that Bush/Cheney left us way overextended?
Don’t forget Jimmy Carter gave the Panama Canal to the Chinese. This has been a long process.
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