China Takeover: In reality, if we allow this suicidal course to continue, we will be transferring our strategic canal not to Panama, but to whichever power moves in to fill the vacuum. And there is no longer any cause to wonder which power that will be. Over the past several years, the People's Republic of China has made unmistakably clear its designs upon the Panama Canal. In fact, it has already moved in and begun to take control of this critically important asset.
Yes, that is true; it is one of the great untold stories that have been completely ignored by our news media. If we proceed along our present course, by the end of this year, on December 31st, Communist China will become the de facto new owners and rulers of the Panama Canal. This is the same Red China that has been so heavily involved in massive espionage efforts to steal our satellite, missile, and nuclear weapons technology; the same totalitarian regime that massacred thousands of students at Tiananmen Square, yet still denies this atrocity; the same Red China that is supplying terrorist regimes such as Iran, Syria, Libya, and North Korea with missiles and weapons of mass destruction; the same Beijing thugs who are threatening Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines, who are helping Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, and who call the United States their "number one enemy"; the same Red China that has so thoroughly penetrated our govern- ment and our military research laboratories during the Clinton Administration. Over 13,000 commercial vessels transit the Panama Canal every year with some 190 million long tons of cargo. In the past year our Naval vessels used the Canal countless times. This 51-mile waterway cuts 8,000 miles off the trip around the southern tip of South America, saving as much as two weeks of transport time. In warfare, time means lives, and that much time can mean the difference between defeat and victory. The Panama Canal has played a crucial role in World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and many other conflicts. I find it unfathomable that this tremendous asset 97 which was bought at such a cost in gold, lives, sweat, and labor at the beginning of this century, and that is still so necessary to our nation's safety 97 could be surrendered nonchalantly now at the close of this tumultuous century. "When I testified on the Panama Canal and United States interests before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 16, 1998, I stated that our military readiness was at an all-time low as regards our ability to defend our country, and at an all-time high as regards the threat to our national security, especially in our own hemisphere." -- Admr. Thomas H. Moorer
Since I delivered that testimony, our armed forces have been involved, of course, in the newest major "contingency" known as Kosovo. We are accepting military commitments, one after another, under the aegis of the UN or NATO, while simultaneously disarming America. Meanwhile, we have seen an alarming increase in tensions between North and South Korea, where we have tens of thousands of American soldiers at risk, without adequate naval and air support, because of our force commitments to Bosnia, Iraq, Kosovo, and elsewhere. China's penetration of Panama is of utmost significance to the United States, but the Clinton Administration and its media friends have turned a blind eye to this dangerous development. In light of what has already become public concerning Beijing's massive payoffs to Clinton-Gore and the Democratic National Committee, and President Clinton's subsequent radical changes of policy to benefit the PRC, it is fair to ask if this willful blindness to so clear a danger is another quid pro quo for Chinese cash. The Chinese penetration of Panama has been effected primarily through an entity known as the Panama Ports Company, a front corporation for Hutchison-Whampoa Limited, a Communist Chinese-controlled company owned by Hong Kong billionaire Dr. Li Ka-shing. Dr. Li's business empire has long been intertwined with enterprises that front for the Communist military and intelligence arms of the People's Republic of China. Ten percent of his Panama Ports Company is owned by China Resources, the commercial arm of China's Ministry of Trade and Economic Cooperation. Communist Control Dr. Li's Hutchison-Whampoa is a partner with the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), the merchant marine arm of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Hutchison-Whampoa also controls countless ports around the world. Because of its relationship to the PRC and the potential impact this implies for our global maritime interests, this should be of major concern to the United States. But my specific concern is that Beijing, operating through this company, has virtually achieved, without a single shot being fired, a stronghold on the Panama Canal, something which took our country so many years and such tremendous effort to accomplish. This stronghold of power has been almost completely accomplished through something called Law No. 5, passed by the Panamanian legislature on January 16, 1997. This law gives Hutchison-Whampoa 97 and, therefore, China 97 exclusive concessions, including, among other things: In addition, we can expect that China will also move, sooner or later, to take control of Howard Air Force Base, Galeta Island, Fort Sherman, SOUTHCOM Quarry Heights Headquarters, Ancon Hill, Amador, and other vital military facilities built by Americans with U.S. taxpayer money. Bucketloads of Money How has this come about? At the same time that China's Communist leaders were buying their way into the Clinton White House, they were also directing large sums of cash into Panama's political process. Panama is a small and relatively poor country, and China, a major power with $45 billion in cash reserves, has had a fairly easy time getting its way with bribery. As Congressman Leopoldo Bennedetti, a member of Panama's Legislative Assembly, put it in an interview with El Siglo, "Bucket loads of money from Asian contractors are pouring in." President Ernesto Balladares and members of his administration and the legislature have been very cozy with Hutchison- Whampoa and the PRC, as well as with Fidel Castro and the drug lords of Colombia. They rigged the bidding process to guarantee that Hutchison would get the bid. They were lured on, no doubt, by Hutchison's bid of $22 million per year, but we do not know how much additional money changed hands "under the table," as one Panamanian legislator put it. Deception and Fraud In 1978, I, along with Admiral Robert Carney, Admiral George Anderson, and Admiral Arleigh Burke, pleaded with President Carter not to give away the Panama Canal. We pointed out the vital security needs of the United States that were at stake. He did not listen. In fact, he and his negotiators engaged in deception and fraud, presenting the U.S. Senate with completely different treaties than those agreed to by General Omar Torrijos, who was then Panama's dictator. There are two Panama Canal Treaties involved: The first provides for the piecemeal transfer of the Canal and all facilities by December 31, 1999. The second promises permanent neutrality and open access to the Canal for all nations. The treaties were fatally flawed, even if taken at face value, because they ignored completely the vital national security interests of the United States. But we were to learn later that secret Carter-Torrijos agreements had made the treaties far more dangerous than we had feared. In order to gain Senate ratification, President Carter acceded to the DeConcini Reservation which guaranteed to the United States the right to use military force, with or without Panama's consent, to keep the Canal open. This was a false hope even if it had been made with honorable intentions. How can the "right" to go into the Canal with military force after it has been taken over by a hostile force compare to the advantage of occupying defensive bases that could prevent the takeover of the Canal by an enemy in the first place? Retaking the Canal and its fortified positions would not only be costly, but could also end up rendering the Canal inoperable. Admr. Thomas H. Moorer
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