This is the last thing we need. China and Russia are an ocean away and we are far safer because of it. But now that Nicaragua has kicked out Taiwan and is allying with China, we are far more vulnerable. Florida Senator Marco Rubio warned that China has been looking for this opportunity and this is a direct threat to our country.
“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.”
Florida Senator Marco Rubio also commented on how dangerous is it that Nicaragua just kicked Taiwan out of their country to appease China.
“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.”
Russia and China are trying to cut out the U.S. and our allies as much as possible. They see war on the horizon. So allowing them to set up camp in Nicaragua is too close for comfort. Biden should be doing something about this ASAP to prevent Nicaragua from allying with China, but unfortunately, we have a president that can’t even evacuate a country properly in office right now.