1. He's letting Mexico know who is boss. The president of Mexico is already agreeing to stop the flood of illegal aliens into the US.
2. FDR made Greenland a US protectorate.
3. If the Chinese control the canal and Panama does nothing to correct the situation, then we may have to.
In the event of a war, we cannot have China separate the US Navy's Atlantic fleet from the Pacific fleet.
"Much of the concern of U.S. officials in more recent times centers on two seaports at either end of the Panama Canal, a channel through which 40 percent of U.S. container traffic runs. Those seaports have been operated for decades by Hutchison Ports PPC, a division of CK Hutchison Holdings, a Hong Kong-based company.
CK Hutchison is a publicly listed conglomerate whose largest owner is a family of Hong Kong billionaires, not the Chinese government. But Beijing has extended its national security laws to Hong Kong, and the Chinese government has recently shown willingness to weaponize supply chains (something that Beijing also accuses the United States of doing).
That has U.S. officials on both sides of the aisle increasingly worried that the Chinese government could exert influence over private companies to shut down commercial and military shipments in a time of war."
The president-elect inaccurately said that Chinese soldiers operate the Panama Canal. But China’s strategic positions in shipping worry Washington officials.
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