China exerts growing power right on America's doorstep

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A Chinese deepwater port and manufacturing zone on an island off El Salvador's coast would give China a significant economic and strategic foothold in what has traditionally been a U.S. sphere of influence, American intelligence and military officials say.

across Latin America and the Caribbean in a way that officials say is harmful to U.S. interests, and via methods that the U.S. cannot employ.is global, and it is everywhere in this hemisphere, and moving forward in alarming ways," said Adm. Craig Faller, the head of U.S. Southern Command, in an exclusive interview with NBC News.is pursuing multiple portals in this hemisphere," he continued, referring to seaports, airports and other transit hubs.

At issue in El Salvador is a proposal to expand and develop a Japanese-built deep water port called La Unión, located in the Gulf of Fonseca at the intersection of Salvadoran, Honduran, and Nicaraguan territory. In 2018, Yang told Salvadoran media he was dealing directly with property owners on the island and wasn't working with a government."These are just business things, like when you go to buy a house you see it with the owners," he said.

The list also named associates of El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, including a close aide and a former security minister. "China seeks to leverage their vision for the future, their vision of the global world order and they don't seek partnerships built on mutual respect and trust. They seek and build on dependency."

 

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Since the Chinese now claim the entire China Sea as their waters, maybe we should extend our claims to the seas far south of our southern shores. Then we can negotiate

Oh my stars. It's almost as if the American strategy of invading foreign nations to control them is sinking the empire. And the America First strategy, severing trade agreements allowed China to forge ahead. Who would've guessed?

Wonder if this has anything to do with the former guy's America first America alone idea. Everything seem to have gone to the dogs with his economic plan.

The U.S. doesn't seem to be looking long range any more so I doubt anything will be done of it.

They've been very active in south america for the last decade or two. They tend to build more things than training camps for death squads so there's that.

The whole world belongs to America, they should know this

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