https://dialogo-americas.com/article...-panama-canal/
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June 15, 2023
Panama, together with the Chinese consortium made up of state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), signed an addendum to resume construction “in the coming months” of the fourth bridge over the Panamanian interoceanic canal, La Estrella de Panamá reported.
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“In this mega-work that was awarded under very questionable principles, they [the Chinese consortium] first make an agreement and then begin to introduce addenda,” Euclides Tapia, professor of International Relations at the University of Panama, told Diálogo on May 29.
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Both CCCC and its subsidiary CHEC have a history of corruption, reported investigative journalism platform Diálogo Chino. The World Bank debarred CCCC in 2011 for six years for fraudulent practices in the Philippines.
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In addition, CCCC is involved in more than 50 works in at least 19 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, supported by capital from the Chinese Communist Party through its Commercial and Industrial Bank, Diálogo Chino reported.
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“The Chinese always have their strategy, they have their double standard. They don’t do things exclusively for commercial reasons,” Tapia said. “There is also a strategic military objective. We have to be careful with them.”
In a report, U.S. think tank Center for a Secure Free Society details that many Chinese companies involved in strategic port development and investment projects have ties to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
The investments made by Beijing in port terminals on the east and west side of the Panama Canal indicate China’s intention to take full advantage of this infrastructure, the University of Navarra in Spain said in a report.
“The political component cannot be isolated from any Chinese investment in Panama or Latin America,” Tapia said. “The port sector is part of their global strategy.”
Among the evidence that China is targeting Panama as a military objective is its non-adherence to the Panama Canal Neutrality Protocol, under the argument that Taiwan is part of the countries that have joined the treaty, Tapia added.
According to Beijing, “Taiwan does not exist as a country. If it does not exist as a country, what is the problem?” Tapia asked. “Panama maintains a free trade agreement with Taiwan, despite the rupture. The United States warned at the time that we should be ‘very careful’ with Chinese investments.”
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Die "denktank" (U.S. think tank Center for a Secure Free Society ) linkte in 2023 de economische activiteiten van de Chinese (1=staat)bedrijven aan het Chinese leger.
Echter, deze propagandasite van 't Westbloks Planburo:
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-...ggests-2006047
... doet een zelfverklaarde fact-check
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Fact Check: Does China Control the Panama Canal, as Trump Suggests?
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..waar ze Trump quoten:
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"Christmas greetings to all, including the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal," Trump wrote.
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Die verwijzing naar het Chinese leger, wordt bevestigd door bovenstaand artikel.
Trump kletst dat dus niet uit zijn nek.
Newsweek:
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While a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings manages two ports at the canal's entrances, with Chinese firms funding construction of a new bridge over the canal to the tune of over $1 billion, this does not equate to control of the canal's operations. The Panama Canal Authority, an autonomous government agency, oversees the canal's administration.
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... Newsweek verzwijgt schoontjes de namen van de Chinese bedrijven, nochtans, volgens die denktank, zijn die in deze branche vaak dubbelstandaard ie niet louter prive maar staat en leger.
Waarom Newsweek verklaart dat de Chinese activiteiten daar "niet gelijk staan" met controle over de "operaties" van het kanaal, wat Trump "operating the Panama Canal" noemde.
Echter Trump zegt "illegally operating".
Dat is niet hetzelfde. Trump beweert niet dat China het kanaal legaal opereert, zoals Newsweek ervan maakt.
Natuurlijk niet, legaal = openlijk.
Trump claimt dat ze dat STIEKEM, illegaal, doen.
En dat zou kunnen, als een Chinees bedrijf steekpenningen geeft / fraude pleegt; wat eerder bewezen zou zijn, in de Philippijnen, als de WorldBank invloedssfeer die 6 jaar heeft geboycot.
Dus dat Fact Checking artikel, trekt op niks.
Het ontkent wat zij maken van wat Trump zei.
Ne klassieker intussen, stromannen galore daar in anti Trump kampfement.