Red China on the March!

[AGENDA21]

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China's move into Grenada clones a pattern it has followed elsewhere in the eastern Caribbean. Exactly the same scenario was played out last year in the neighboring island of Dominique, and some years ago in St. Lucia. Each of these island republics now has a full-scale Chinese embassy, a completed or promised national soccer stadium, and is receiving continuing aid. Dominica, for example, is slated to receive a staggering U.S.$112 million in aid, which works out to $1,600 for each of the island's 70,000 inhabitants. Some of this aid was cash, ostensibly to ease the government's cash flow problems. Coincidently, Chinese construction battalions have landed a number of government-funded infrastructural projects in the region, such as a contract to build a storm drainage system in Castries, the capital of St. Lucia.

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What should we do to counter China's moves in the Caribbean? First, we must stop taking the region for granted, reacting only after the fact, as we did after a communist coup in Grenada in 1983. That crisis, it is well to recall, would have been much worse if other Caribbean nations had not taken a firm stand against the Russian and Cuban-supported coup, and voted in favor of U.S. intervention. Would the new crop of politicians, so assiduously courted by China, come down on our side in the event of a similar problem?
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/mosher200602140810.asp

[acmejack]

1. We've had our opportunities for what several centuries?

And we wonder why the world sees us as buffoons or worse.

[flashdebadge]

2. Why would we want to "counter" China? I don't care what they are doing.

Lets just continue to help the Dominican Republic. Those people still need help and the fact that China wants to help them by building a soccer stadium seems like a good idea to me.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Soccer stadium? Drainage system? Oh, the Horror!

What's next? Hospitals? Schools?

How dare those commies build infrastructure instead of blowing it up like we "democratic" Americans do!