Seems others are sticking their noses into our business and our hemisphere...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-official-warns-trump-against-taking-control-panama-canalAlexander Shchetinin...and anybody else butting into our business...can go f**k themselves!
WE, not some Russian ponce, not some Beijing Politburo lapdog...WE have security rights there!
There were two treaties in 1997, the canal treaty and the neutrality treaty.
The Neutrality Treaty clearly states that the US can use its military to defend the Panama Canal against
any threat to its neutrality!
2016: The expansion of the Canal and its operations, allowing for larger vessels to transmit the lock system, were completed. The first container ship to pass through expanded Canal was Chinese-owned: the COCSO PANAMA. The ship entered the locks on June 26, marking the official opening of the expanded canal.
That same year, China acquired the management contract of Margarita Island of the Colon Free Trade Zone on the Atlantic side of the Canal. This deal established the Panama-Colón Container Port (PCCP) as a deep-water port for megaships.
2017: The Panamanian government severed ties diplomatic ties with Taiwan and fully recognized China. This opened-up Panama’s eventual entry into China’s “Belt Road Initiative” in 2018, when it became the first Latin American country to sign. In 2021, under the failing Panamanian administration of Laurentino Cortizo--and despite significant domestic and international opposition--the contract with China’s Hutchinson Ports was renewed for another 25 years.https://www.industryweek.com/the-economy/competitiveness/article/55261229/china-saw-opportunity-in-the-panama-canal-as-us-interest-dwindledIn what diseased mind does neutrality exist when the Panamanian's throw the Taiwanese under the bus in full capitulation to Beijing dogma and turn both ends of canal operations over to the fracking Chi-Com's?
Only answer - it doesn't.
Time to issue Panama an ultimatum...kick the Chi-Com's out...or we immediately exercise our right to restore neutrality.
