Rubio Warns US To Watch Out, Nicaragua Just Gave China New Access To US Soil
I believe the correct way to look at this is, China is attempting to flank the US. Florida Senator Marco Rubio sounded the alarm after Nicaragua sided with the Chinese communist party by creating a potential relationship with China that could lead to a massive immigration nightmare.
Washington Examiner explained:
“The Chinese don’t say, ‘We want to take over Latin America,’ but they clearly set out a multidimensional engagement strategy, which, if successful, would significantly expand their leverage and produce enormous intelligence concerns for the United States,” U.S. Army War College research professor Evan Ellis, a former member of the State Department policy planning staff, told the Washington Examiner.
Chinese officials outlined their ambitions following a summit with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. This intergovernmental forum was launched in 2011 under the auspices of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who wanted a venue to rival the Organization of American States and challenge U.S. influence in Latin America, and it now stands to furnish Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping with a platform to gather a coalition of leftist and authoritarian leaders congenial to Beijing’s interests.
“The Chinese Communist Party and government are actively looking to strengthen their ties throughout the Western Hemisphere, in particular with anti-American elements,” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a senior Senate Intelligence Select Committee Republican, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “Beijing is seeking to surpass the United States in every sector, and we must take this threat seriously.”
He continued, explaining that when Nicaragua chose to kick out Taiwan they sided with China. Leaving an immigration opening for the communist government:
“The Ortega-Murillo regime sees the CCP as a better ideological ally than the U.S. because Ortega’s long list of crimes and human rights violations are of no concern to the genocidal regime in Beijing,” he wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday. “Ortega also wants continued Chinese funding for the construction of an Atlantic-to-Pacific canal through Nicaragua, which People’s Liberation Army warships can then use to access the Caribbean.”
Nicaragua's move certainly is enough to raise concerns but what can the US do with Biden at the helm? The open border policies of the current administration have already put border security at unimaginable risk. I hope that would change for the better in China starts moving in with our southern neighbors.
