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>From WorldTribune.CoM
> How China is strengthening its Panama beachead
>
>
> By G. Russell Evans
> SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
>
>
> Thursday, August 19, 1999
>
> China is consolidating its control at the Panama Canal — big time
> — according to two recent fact-finding trips to Panama by private
> U.S. organizations, neither of which has been reported by the
> major media or acknowledged by the Clinton-Gore administration,
> which has its own agenda.
>
> The big media protect the president. The continuing Clinton-Gore
> campaign protects the communist Chinese as a quid pro quo for
> generous cash donations to their 1996 re-election. This strategic
> political alliance is apparently more important than U.S.
> national security.
>
> In June, a group led by Richard Delgaudio of the National
> Security Center observed extensive construction, barbed wire
> fences and Chinese guards at the Panama Ports Company, which is
> controlled by the Hutchison Whampoa group, which in turn is
> controlled by the Peoples' Liberation Army of China.
>
> Mr. Delgaudio is rightly concerned about China's activities in
> the Panama Canal area in a year when the last U.S. military
> forces have been withdrawn from bases there and which will see
> the canal turned over to Panama by the United States on Dec. 31.
>
> Article V of the Neutrality Treaty allows Panama only in defense
> sites. Article VI gives U.S. warships "head of line" priority.
> Not so, says Panama Law No. 5 in its 50-year lease to Red China's
> agent Hutchison Port Holdings, with "priority" at the ports and
> "occupation" of Rodman Naval Station and part of Albrook Air
> Force Station — where Red China can base missiles, submarines and
> J-11 bombers 900 miles from Miami.
>
> Hutchison's construction projects at Balboa on the Pacific side
> include new piers and huge warehouses. Workers' uniforms and
> signs proclaim "Panama Ports Company," a smokescreen for
> Hutchison.
>
> The new administration building at the Balboa port is also
> labeled "Panama Ports Company" and houses Hutchison offices and
> Midland Bank, which is now owned by Chinese interests. Nearby is
> Cable & Wireless Communications, which is 25 percent owned by the
> Chinese. This is all part of the $22.2 million per year lease
> engineered by Panamanian President Ernesto "Toro" Balladares
> behind the backs of American companies.
>
> On the Atlantic side at Cristobal, also controlled by Hutchison,
> dozens of ships routinely await clearance. After the Canal
> surrender date of Dec. 31, Hutchison has authority under Panama
> Law No. 5 to use its own pilots and, with its "port priority,"
> can certainly control "head of line" on a day-to-day basis.
>
> Through Hutchison, China has in effect "established a strategic
> beachhead in Panama," Delgaudio's group concluded in their report
> (available care of the National Security Center, 10560 Main St.,
> #217, Fairfax, Va 22030). Members of the group included Al
> Santoli, an aide to U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, California
> Republican, James Doran of the Senate Foreign Relations
> Committee, and Michael Waller, vice president of the American
> Foreign Policy Council.
>
> Adm. Thomas Moorer, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
> has warned that President Clinton has made absolutely no effort
> to "prevent surrender of our Canal into enemy hands." He asks why
> Republicans in Congress have made no "substantive effort to stop
> this mad rush to disaster."
>
> Why indeed? Perhaps they are afraid — afraid to criticize the
> president, the man so popular with voters for giving them "peace,
> prosperity and fat pocketbooks" which apparently, for most
> voters, is more important than national security and national
> honor — certainly more important than the Panama Canal.
> Politicians want votes, not a Canal.
>
> My letter to eight congressional leaders carefully explained the
> Chinese threat with documentation. I have yet to hear a response
> from Senators Lott, Biden, Warner, Daschle and Robb — and from
> Congressmen Armey, DeLay and Scott.
>
> Even so, it is our sacred duty to get through to the president,
> our two senators and congressmen that Hutchison is absolutely
> unacceptable as the gatekeeper at the Canal, the occupier of the
> defense sites established and until this year manned by U.S.
> armed forces. If Panama balks, the United States should abrogate
> the 1977 Panama Canal Treaties Act by authority of Article 62 of
> the Vienna Convention because of the "fundamental change of
> circumstances."
>
> G. Russell Evans is a retired Coast Guard captain and author of
> the book "Death Knell of the Panama Canal?" which is available on
> the Internet at Amazon.com.
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