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2021-03-16 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese Military Bases in The Caribbean?

[Gatestone via SOF] China’s Communist Party (CCP) seems to be implementing a multidimensional strategy in the Caribbean, reaping economic, political and potentially military gains a few miles offshore the United States. China’s ultimate objective of its Caribbean strategy may well be to confront the US, not only with its presence near the mainland US, but also with a situation analogous to America’s military presence in the region of the South China Sea. There, China created new islands in the sea, pledged not to militarize them, then went and militarized them.

It is important to remember that China also promised Hong Kong autonomy until 2047, then, in 2020, jumped the gun by 27 years. "Hong Kong will be another communist-run city under China’s strict control," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared in July. China is clearly not a government that honors its agreements.

The CCP leadership has also been launching a diplomatic effort in the Caribbean with the goal of delegitimizing the state of Taiwan, while encouraging regional countries to open relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Chinese shipments of military and police equipment to several Caribbean states could be developing into beachheads for future People’s Liberation Army (PLA) "advisory groups" in the Western Hemisphere. China’s construction projects already include the modernization of airports and seaports, which could increase Chinese geopolitical and military influence in the region. Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe already is on record expressing China’s willingness to deepen military cooperation with Caribbean countries.

Additionally, China has been investing considerable revenue in the economies of the hemisphere’s anti-American Caribbean socialist states of Cuba and Venezuela. China’s establishment of a Caribbean Belt and Road Sector is an opportunity for CCP intelligence operatives to suborn the sovereignty of Caribbean countries by luring these societies into "debt trap" economic dependency on China. In Sri Lanka, for instance, the country’s inability to pay back its Chinese creditors for Beijing’s modernization of the port of Hambantota has resulted in the South Asian country’s effective lossof the port.

China’s Caribbean offensive so far includes a "medical diplomacy" initiative that is providing Latin America, but especially the region’s island states, with face masks, personal protective gowns and gloves, ventilators, ambulances, and pharmaceuticals. This May, China convened a video-link conference on the COVID-19 virus at the vice-ministerial level with the nineCaribbean countries that have diplomatic relations with Beijing: Antigua, Barbuda, Barbados, the Bahamas, Dominica, Granada, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
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#1 Gatestone is just pissed off the Chinese are offering a better deal than the US deep state are. They got fat and lazy and used to high-handedly bossing all these little countries around.

Posted by Sheger Thromotch7944 2021-03-16 00:57|| 2021-03-16 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Surprised about Grenada. They had some experience with Marxists in the past. Murdering unarmed civilians to consolidate power. That sort of thing.

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Thromons3612 2021-03-16 01:22|| 2021-03-16 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Posted by Clem 2021-03-16 06:06|| 2021-03-16 06:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Source: The American Thinker

On July 23, 2021, the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, China launches a massive invasion of Taiwan. As news is related to President Biden, he is overwhelmed and shuts down mentally. An order is signed by President Biden authorizing the U.S. Pacific Fleet to respond to the threat. However, the military chain of command wants to meet with the president to verify that he has signed the order and that he Is mentally competent. Members of the Joint Chiefs meet with the president and determine that he is not mentally competent and refuse to obey the order.

On July 24, Kamala Harris calls an emergency Cabinet meeting to invoke the provisions of Section 4 of the 25th Amendment and to remove the president from office. A majority of the Cabinet declares that it will not decide until it sees medical proof of disability. President Biden refuses to consent to a medical exam.

July 26, at another emergency Cabinet meeting, affidavits and witnesses are presented demonstrating President Biden's inability to govern. The majority of Cabinet members vote in favor of removing President Biden, and a written declaration is submitted to both houses of Congress. Upon delivery, Kamala Harris becomes acting president. Two hours later, President Biden delivers a written declaration to both houses of Congress that he has no inability to govern and resumes being president.

July 27, V.P. Harris and a majority of the Cabinet submit a second written declaration to both houses of Congress that again states that President Biden is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Upon delivery, V.P. Harris again becomes acting president. Congress must schedule the trial within 21 days of July 27. A trial is scheduled for August 16.

July 28, Acting President Harris gives an order to the Pacific Fleet to provide logistical support to the Taiwanese military. The military responds that it will take at least five days for a carrier group to arrive in the area, which will be too late to offer assistance to the Taiwanese.

August 3, Taiwan announces its unconditional surrender to China, and major hostilities cease.

August 16, over two-thirds of both the Senate and the House vote that President Biden is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and V.P. Harris shall continue as acting president.

Interestingly, I can't find this article on the Am Thinker website now...hmmmm..

Posted by Warthog 2021-03-16 09:45|| 2021-03-16 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 The American Thinker forgot the collapse of the three gorges dam from unknown causes soon after the invasion of Taiwan. This caused massive displacement throughout the heartland of China and a loss of power across the nation that led to uprisings and the collapse of the PRC government far faster than anyone has anticipated.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-03-16 11:40|| 2021-03-16 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 This caused massive displacement throughout the heartland of China

...preceded by tens of millions of deaths and the destruction of a good portion of China’s manufacturing capacity and Shanghai port, if I have the geography right.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-16 14:17|| 2021-03-16 14:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Dream on. The US will not attack mainland China or defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion.

This will be like the 1956 Suez Crisis. Biden as Anthony Eden. Beginning of the end of American global dominance and the rise of a multipolar world. End of the American rules-based order.

Posted by Hupoluque Jick6491 2021-03-16 14:30|| 2021-03-16 14:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Chinese troops cant afford the cost of drinks and company. China will have to import it. Invading or posting troops is not their normal process, nor is massing of troops for training. They will bring in businesses and construction, effectively take over the economy and then take over the political class of each island. It takes a decade or two, but its very successful.

Posted by 49 Pan 2021-03-16 16:33|| 2021-03-16 16:33|| Front Page Top

#9 ...as we've seen in Washington.

"Look over there, Russians" - aka "Squirrel"

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-16 17:35|| 2021-03-16 17:35|| Front Page Top

#10 I see. Y'all are all planning on pretending to get revenge on the Chinese puppets in our government by celebrating China's ongoing takeover of Venezuela.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-03-16 19:41|| 2021-03-16 19:41|| Front Page Top

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