A new slant on RIMPAC Naval politics/The Fight To Control The South China Sea

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...3e8ceb2a&ei=23 While I'm not exactly pro-Trump, I gotta go with this one!

While no mention was made of the ports deal, Beijing last week cast doubt on Hutchison's statement the acquisition was "purely commercial" and "unrelated to recent political news reports." "It is clear this deal is a hegemonic act by the U.S. to use its national power to embezzle the legitimate rights and interests of other countries through coercion, pressure, inducement, and other despicable means, and it is a power politics packaged as 'commercial behavior,'" wrote state mouthpiece Ta Kung Pao in a commentary shared by Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong.
The article blasted CK Hutchison for "kneeling without a backbone"(they really meant 'kowtowing) and abandoning China's national interests in pursuit of profit.

BOTTOM LINE: apparantly the aggrandizing global Chinese empire can do it with their Road and Belt foreign aid program to impoverished nations greedy and dumb enough to fall under Peking's financial thumb

The Chinese embassy in Panama said during a March 7 press conference: "What people in LAC [Latin America and the Caribbean] countries want is to build their own home, not to become someone's backyard; what they aspire to is independence and self-decision, not the Monroe Doctrine.

"Cooperation between China and LAC countries has won popular support because it respects the will of the people, meets the needs of regional countries, and provides reliable options and broad prospects for the revitalization of the region."

....but apparently we can't no wonder we invoked the Monroe Doctrine in 1823...just not with China in mind at the time!!?? https://www.archives.gov/milestone-d...onroe-doctrine