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Panama.
He doesn't like he has pay to use the canal and wants it's back 'under the control of America'.
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He doesn't like he has pay to use the canal and wants it's back 'under the control of America'.
Elbow beards
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Fucking hypocritical ****, wants to be all insular and not 'police the world' but wants to get his grubby mitts in parts of the world that suit his interests.
mancity2012_eamo
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Bits that could make money.
For an isolationist he sure sounds imperialist.
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Not particularly unusual in American history.
He's a throwback to the Roosevelt corrallary and the Monroe doctrine.
Although his idealogy is more brazen because at that timethey at least pretended to be acting in the name of peace and goodwill.
From his pov the Americas are the US's sphere of influence and they can do as they like. If he decides he wants a piece of Canada or Mexico he'd order an invasion if he was told it would work.
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So these articles will help. Additionally the U.S. has retained the right to intervene militarily if they believe the canal's neutral status is threatened. China has also established a presence in the Straits of Magellan. It's pretty obvious what China is doing. Sorry about the formatting. Oh, and Trump is right.
dialogo-americas.com
^^^^the article contains a wealth of FACTS about what China has been up to in Panama, as well as links to articles about China's increasing penetration of Peru.
www.eurasiareview.com
In Panama, PRC-based companies are engaged in or bidding for several projects related to the Panama Canal, a global strategic chokepoint, including port operations on both ends of the canal, water management, and a logistics park,” according to Richardson’s written testimony.
Likewise, the Chinese have invested heavily in a space-research project in Argentina that would allow Beijing to track U.S. satellites and also won the rights to build facilities near the Magellan Strait that would also give China access to Antarctica.
Richardson told the panel the Beijing’s investments in Central and South American infrastructure, particularly ports, follow the pattern it developed in Africa. Right now, the “Chinese have 29 port projects” across the command, including a major one in El Salvador that has economic implications for other Central American nations.
Ports have civilian and military value.
news.usni.org
The first significant test for Cortizo’s China policy came in 2021, when Hutchison Ports (PPC), a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based corporate group Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., successfully applied for a 25-year renewal of the concessions it had over the ports of Balboa and Cristóbal. These ports are strategically located at the Pacific and Caribbean sides of the Panama Canal, which gives PPC a de facto monopoly over the porting industry around the canal. Throughout these negotiations, Panama obliged most of PPC’s terms and conditions. Paradoxically, the Panamanian government did not raise a single concern over indirect control over PPC by the PRC.
The canal decision centers on a 50-year concession for a new water management system. This system will address the increasingly constrained water levels caused by drought and overuse that have worried canal officials for years. Multiple PRC companies have expressed interest in this project. With these two contracts, China would have an enormous lever of power to affect transshipment cargo operations. Beijing could use these companies as political agents to disrupt canal operations during a hot gray zone confrontation, exerting strategic control over this critical maritime chokepoint.
centerforsecuritypolicy.org
Why Greenland?
www.diis.dk
Panama: China’s Strategic Hub
“China has turned Panama into a geographic and commercial concentration center or strategic hub for its political, commercial, and military advance in the region,” Euclides Tapia, professor at the School of International Relations of the University of Panama, told Diálogo.
*snip*
For Tapia, it was an attempt to lure Panama in what analysts have called the debt trap. “The strategy is the same one that has been successfully practiced in other countries where they indebt them until they are forced to pay with assets, as in the case of Sri Lanka, which was forced to lease the port to China for 99 years. I have no doubt that they were trying to do the same with the Canal,” Tapia said.
Panama: China’s Strategic Hub
Nearly 6 percent of global trade and 57.5 percent of the cargo transported in container that ships from Asia to the East Coast of the United States passes through the Panama Canal. Today, this important infrastructure is the focus of great concern in political, economic, and academic sectors...
dialogo-americas.com
The Geopolitical Significance Of The Panama Canal – Analysis
In 1513, the Spanish maritime explorer, Vasco Núñez de Balbo, crossed the Isthmus of Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean. From that moment on, the Spanish, and then the Dutch, the French, the British and the Americans, would try to dig a canal between the oceans that would greatly shorten the...
www.eurasiareview.com
Chinese Investment Near Panama Canal, Strait of Magellan Major Concern for U.S. Southern Command.
Restrictions to the passage of traffic through the Panama Canal and the Strait of Magellan as China moves aggressively to expand its footprint across Central and South America are the top concerns of the current U.S. Southern Command head told a Senate panel.In Panama, PRC-based companies are engaged in or bidding for several projects related to the Panama Canal, a global strategic chokepoint, including port operations on both ends of the canal, water management, and a logistics park,” according to Richardson’s written testimony.
Likewise, the Chinese have invested heavily in a space-research project in Argentina that would allow Beijing to track U.S. satellites and also won the rights to build facilities near the Magellan Strait that would also give China access to Antarctica.
Richardson told the panel the Beijing’s investments in Central and South American infrastructure, particularly ports, follow the pattern it developed in Africa. Right now, the “Chinese have 29 port projects” across the command, including a major one in El Salvador that has economic implications for other Central American nations.
Ports have civilian and military value.
Chinese Investment Near Panama Canal, Strait of Magellan Major Concern for U.S. Southern Command - USNI News
Restrictions to the passage of traffic through the Panama Canal and the Strait of Magellan as China moves aggressively to expand its footprint across Central and South America are the top concerns of the current U.S. Southern Command head told a Senate panel. “[Those] very strategic lines of...
news.usni.org
With New Ambassador, a New Stage in Panama-China Diplomatic Relations
The first significant test for Cortizo’s China policy came in 2021, when Hutchison Ports (PPC), a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based corporate group Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., successfully applied for a 25-year renewal of the concessions it had over the ports of Balboa and Cristóbal. These ports are strategically located at the Pacific and Caribbean sides of the Panama Canal, which gives PPC a de facto monopoly over the porting industry around the canal. Throughout these negotiations, Panama obliged most of PPC’s terms and conditions. Paradoxically, the Panamanian government did not raise a single concern over indirect control over PPC by the PRC.
With New Ambassador, a New Stage in Panama-China Diplomatic Relations
China has consolidated its influence in Panama through significant infrastructure projects linked to the quintessential global supply chain tied to the canal.
thediplomat.com
Losing strategic control of the Panama Canal to the People’s Republic of China
The port decision focuses on Hutchison Whampoa and its 25-year port concession set to expire in January 2022. Hutchison is a Chinese multinational, Fortune 500 conglomerate with a ports and related services division operating in 26 countries. They also manage five of the 10 busiest container ports in the world. While China does not operate the canal, Hutchison manages the ports of Balboa and Cristobal on both sides of the isthmus and the concession for Margarita Island, Panama’s largest Atlantic port. Hutchison is rumored to have deep ties spanning decades with Beijing.The canal decision centers on a 50-year concession for a new water management system. This system will address the increasingly constrained water levels caused by drought and overuse that have worried canal officials for years. Multiple PRC companies have expressed interest in this project. With these two contracts, China would have an enormous lever of power to affect transshipment cargo operations. Beijing could use these companies as political agents to disrupt canal operations during a hot gray zone confrontation, exerting strategic control over this critical maritime chokepoint.
Losing strategic control of the Panama Canal to the People’s Republic of China
A growing U.S.-People’s Republic of China (PRC) gray zone skirmish in Panama could have real national security implications for the United States.
www.washingtontimes.com
Losing strategic control of the Panama Canal to the People’s Republic of China
A growing U.S.-People’s Republic of China (PRC) gray zone skirmish in Panama could have real national security implications for the United States.
www.washingtontimes.com
Carter-Clinton Legacy: Chinese Penetration of Panama
^^^^ above article is from 1999 and predicts pretty accurately exactly what China would do and the front companies it would use. No one listened.Carter-Clinton Legacy: Chinese Penetration of Panama – Center for Security Policy
centerforsecuritypolicy.org
Greenland’s minerals to consolidate China’s rare earth dominance?
No green future without China
Blue Maverick
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But Panama is not your country, accorroding to Trump you shouldn’t be interfering it’s got nothing to do with you same as the rest of the world, oh wait that’s unless it benefits him. Can’t have it both ways, you either help police the world or fuck of behind your own borders and become insular, just like Bush Jnr thought that was until 9/11 happened!So these articles will help. Additionally the U.S. has retained the right to intervene militarily if they believe the canal's neutral status is threatened. China has also established a presence in the Straits of Magellan. It's pretty obvious what China is doing. Sorry about the formatting. Oh, and Trump is right.
Panama: China’s Strategic Hub
“China has turned Panama into a geographic and commercial concentration center or strategic hub for its political, commercial, and military advance in the region,” Euclides Tapia, professor at the School of International Relations of the University of Panama, told Diálogo.
*snip*
For Tapia, it was an attempt to lure Panama in what analysts have called the debt trap. “The strategy is the same one that has been successfully practiced in other countries where they indebt them until they are forced to pay with assets, as in the case of Sri Lanka, which was forced to lease the port to China for 99 years. I have no doubt that they were trying to do the same with the Canal,” Tapia said.
^^^^the article contains a wealth of FACTS about what China has been up to in Panama, as well as links to articles about China's increasing penetration of Peru.Panama: China’s Strategic Hub
Nearly 6 percent of global trade and 57.5 percent of the cargo transported in container that ships from Asia to the East Coast of the United States passes through the Panama Canal. Today, this important infrastructure is the focus of great concern in political, economic, and academic sectors...
The Geopolitical Significance Of The Panama Canal – Analysis
In 1513, the Spanish maritime explorer, Vasco Núñez de Balbo, crossed the Isthmus of Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean. From that moment on, the Spanish, and then the Dutch, the French, the British and the Americans, would try to dig a canal between the oceans that would greatly shorten the...Chinese Investment Near Panama Canal, Strait of Magellan Major Concern for U.S. Southern Command.
Restrictions to the passage of traffic through the Panama Canal and the Strait of Magellan as China moves aggressively to expand its footprint across Central and South America are the top concerns of the current U.S. Southern Command head told a Senate panel.
In Panama, PRC-based companies are engaged in or bidding for several projects related to the Panama Canal, a global strategic chokepoint, including port operations on both ends of the canal, water management, and a logistics park,” according to Richardson’s written testimony.
Likewise, the Chinese have invested heavily in a space-research project in Argentina that would allow Beijing to track U.S. satellites and also won the rights to build facilities near the Magellan Strait that would also give China access to Antarctica.
Richardson told the panel the Beijing’s investments in Central and South American infrastructure, particularly ports, follow the pattern it developed in Africa. Right now, the “Chinese have 29 port projects” across the command, including a major one in El Salvador that has economic implications for other Central American nations.
Ports have civilian and military value.
Chinese Investment Near Panama Canal, Strait of Magellan Major Concern for U.S. Southern Command - USNI News
Restrictions to the passage of traffic through the Panama Canal and the Strait of Magellan as China moves aggressively to expand its footprint across Central and South America are the top concerns of the current U.S. Southern Command head told a Senate panel. “[Those] very strategic lines of...
With New Ambassador, a New Stage in Panama-China Diplomatic Relations
The first significant test for Cortizo’s China policy came in 2021, when Hutchison Ports (PPC), a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based corporate group Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., successfully applied for a 25-year renewal of the concessions it had over the ports of Balboa and Cristóbal. These ports are strategically located at the Pacific and Caribbean sides of the Panama Canal, which gives PPC a de facto monopoly over the porting industry around the canal. Throughout these negotiations, Panama obliged most of PPC’s terms and conditions. Paradoxically, the Panamanian government did not raise a single concern over indirect control over PPC by the PRC.
With New Ambassador, a New Stage in Panama-China Diplomatic Relations
China has consolidated its influence in Panama through significant infrastructure projects linked to the quintessential global supply chain tied to the canal.thediplomat.comLosing strategic control of the Panama Canal to the People’s Republic of China
The port decision focuses on Hutchison Whampoa and its 25-year port concession set to expire in January 2022. Hutchison is a Chinese multinational, Fortune 500 conglomerate with a ports and related services division operating in 26 countries. They also manage five of the 10 busiest container ports in the world. While China does not operate the canal, Hutchison manages the ports of Balboa and Cristobal on both sides of the isthmus and the concession for Margarita Island, Panama’s largest Atlantic port. Hutchison is rumored to have deep ties spanning decades with Beijing.
The canal decision centers on a 50-year concession for a new water management system. This system will address the increasingly constrained water levels caused by drought and overuse that have worried canal officials for years. Multiple PRC companies have expressed interest in this project. With these two contracts, China would have an enormous lever of power to affect transshipment cargo operations. Beijing could use these companies as political agents to disrupt canal operations during a hot gray zone confrontation, exerting strategic control over this critical maritime chokepoint.
Losing strategic control of the Panama Canal to the People’s Republic of China
A growing U.S.-People’s Republic of China (PRC) gray zone skirmish in Panama could have real national security implications for the United States.Carter-Clinton Legacy: Chinese Penetration of Panama
^^^^ above article is from 1999 and predicts pretty accurately exactly what China would do and the front companies it would use. No one listened.
Why Greenland?Carter-Clinton Legacy: Chinese Penetration of Panama – Center for Security Policy
Greenland’s minerals to consolidate China’s rare earth dominance?
No green future without China
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Where are we up to with allies that that Trump or Musk have either threatened or been shit stirring?
- Denmark/Greenland
- Panama
- Canada
- Mexico
- UK
- Germany
- Ukraine
I’m sure there’s more and it will only get worse once he’s in power.
- Denmark/Greenland
- Panama
- Canada
- Mexico
- UK
- Germany
- Ukraine
I’m sure there’s more and it will only get worse once he’s in power.
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Is China’s ‘Debt-Trap Diplomacy’ in Greenland Simply on Ice?
Should Greeland continue to move toward independence, the cash-strapped territory would be at high risk of falling prey to Chinese investments that seek to gain influence.
Is China’s ‘Debt-Trap Diplomacy’ in Greenland Simply on Ice?
Should Greeland continue to move toward independence, the cash-strapped territory would be at high risk of falling prey to Chinese investments that seek to gain influence.
thediplomat.com
Just google "greenland chinese influence" and read. Page after page.
I get it. Laugh at moron Trump. That's what matters.
Greenland’s Strategic Importance in the Green Transition, Defense, and Independence from Chinese Supply Chains.
Greenland’s Strategic Importance in the Green Transition, Defense, and Independence from Chinese Supply Chains
Greenland is rapidly gaining global recognition as an untapped resource powerhouse, crucial for the world's green transition, advanced defense technologies, and Western countries' efforts to reduce their dependence on China for critical minerals. In particular, the European Union (EU) has...
www.critical-minerals.info
All of these are issues raised by the military, intelligence analysts, business leaders, academics, diplomats. You know the experts. Now when Trump gets involved it's just all a big laugh.
The Coldest Geopolitical Hotspot: Global Powers Vie for Arctic Dominance over Greenland
Located in the Arctic Circle, Greenland, along with the rest of the “High North,” is strategically positioned on the shortest routes connecting Asia, Europe, and North America.In 2019, President Trump tried to purchase Greenland, a proposal that left Denmark’s leadership “bewildered.” The unprecedented attempt to purchase the island reflected a shift in US policymakers’ priorities toward extending a greater influence over the region. While the United States cares about the availability of new resources due to thawing ice sheets, the country is more concerned about limiting the influence of rival powers such as China. From 2012 to 2017, China invested US$450 billion across eight Arctic nations to establish the Northern Sea Route, a shorter shipping route to Europe with an accompanying submarine internet link. The Northern Sea Route’s internet cables support future techno-based growth in the Arctic and allow China to boost defense capabilities by monitoring cyberspace around the region. In addition to technological developments, China attempted to establish a hold over Greenland’s iron and uranium mining industries. The Chinese government declared its intent in 2018 to create a “Polar Silk Road” in order to link Europe with Asia and facilitate transportation channels.
The Coldest Geopolitical Hotspot: Global Powers Vie for Arctic Dominance over Greenland
"Greenland may feel cold and distant, but the country is now an Arctic hub, rich with military, economic, and political incentives."
hir.harvard.edu