Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

China tightens stranglehold on Latin America and Caribbean... as Biden dithers: Generals warn that Beijing has built a SPACE STATION in Argentina that could blind US, signed 21 countries up to trade pact and bought key ports on Panama Canal
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 14 2023 | LEWIS PENNOCK

Posted on 05/14/2023 11:35:36 AM PDT by knighthawk

As headlines about the frosty relationship between China and the United States are dominated by spy balloons, Taiwan and botched attempts at diplomacy, commanders in the Pentagon are increasingly worried by a more insidious threat: Beijing's growing stronghold on Latin America.

From tens of billions of dollars in funding for key infrastructure projects across the region to its own secretive, military-run space station in Argentina that could target American satellites, China's presence has grown.

Some 21 countries in Latin America are signed up to Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative - a defining policy introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2013 that wins power and influence by funding global infrastructure projects.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; China; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War
KEYWORDS: 2013; argentina; beltandroad; biden; bidenvoters; bri; briberyjoe; calmdown; caribbean; chicoms; china; dementiajoe; latinamerica; russia; xi
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last
To: Sacajaweau

not the canal. that is owned by panama.

this refers to balboa, cristobal, and (not sure if they have the concession) rodman ports.

the allegation that china bought the canal is one of the more common lies about panama here, presumably from people that don’t know the difference.

I don’t think many people realize just how vulnerable the canal is in terms of modern warfare.


21 posted on 05/14/2023 8:37:24 PM PDT by WoofDog123
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: beancounter13

I’m with you. China in Africa is another boondoggle. They wont call it “colonialism” and accuse the CCP of ‘white supremacy’.


22 posted on 05/15/2023 2:01:41 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: ealgeone

That’s racist! (Sarcasm…)


23 posted on 05/15/2023 2:50:29 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: WoofDog123

Aren’t ALL canals?


24 posted on 05/15/2023 3:46:22 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: knighthawk

What will China do when the projects aren’t completed because the money is stolen and then the projects “nationalized”.


25 posted on 05/15/2023 3:53:10 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Elsie

i am not familiar with suez, I would assume it has key vulnerable points, though it cannot be drained as I understand it - it is a sea-level canal (or between 2 sea levels). ditto other canals?

Panama’s can literally be deprived of water aside from all the other vulnerabilities.


26 posted on 05/15/2023 4:44:49 AM PDT by WoofDog123
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: knighthawk

Great. Just great. More good news.


27 posted on 05/15/2023 5:31:54 AM PDT by NeverTyranny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: knighthawk

Great. Just great. More good news.


28 posted on 05/15/2023 5:31:54 AM PDT by NeverTyranny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: griswold3

You bring up a very good point. If China acts like the colonial power it wishes to be, then the leftwing establishment and their media will have to invent some new terms.

Then again, they are already saying you don’t have to be white to be a white supremicist.


29 posted on 05/15/2023 6:29:48 AM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Jimmy Valentine

What will China do when the miscellaneous South Americans fail to hold up their end of the bargain? They’ll do the same thing they’ve been doing so successfully in Africa: they’ll point to the fine print in the contract before taking possession of the property involved — land, ports, infrastructure, natural resources, etc. The Chinese aren’t fighters, they’re a merchant race, and that’s how they do business.


30 posted on 05/15/2023 7:40:03 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: knighthawk

Huh? Biden and much of DC elites are on China’s payroll. The military knows that.


31 posted on 05/15/2023 9:36:26 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: knighthawk

The “space station” in question. Similar to facilities the USA built in the southern hemisphere to track space missions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espacio_Lejano_Station


32 posted on 05/15/2023 9:54:27 AM PDT by varyouga
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: WoofDog123
it has key vulnerable points,

The world saw that when that big ship got stuck sideways in it a few months back.

33 posted on 05/15/2023 7:52:01 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Nateman

Well Earth is in space I suppose...


34 posted on 05/16/2023 8:37:35 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: AndyTheBear

You mean it’s not Turtles all the way down?


35 posted on 05/17/2023 6:28:06 AM PDT by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ Mad Moe definitely comes in as a Strong second..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Nateman

It used to be turtles all the way down. Not anymore though. Now its bubble universes all the way down.


36 posted on 05/17/2023 6:59:05 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: knighthawk

This article doesn’t even capture the full extent of what is going on.

While the US blows its wad in idiotic wars in the Ukraine against has been world power, reminiscing about the Cold War, we have the PRC (our new threat and peer) crawl up our back.

The PRC is a powerhouse, both economically and militarily.
They are a threat and are expansionist and militant with us having many points of potential conflict: Taiwan, Spratly Islands, North Korea...

Unless we choose to abdicate and simply resign to the fact that eventually they will be number one and call the shots, as we have been, conflict is inevitable. All this BS talk about the world being big enough for both of us is garbage.


37 posted on 07/11/2023 11:46:43 AM PDT by Red6
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson