Chinese, Cuba
Cuba provides front door entry into U.S. for Communist China
By Judi McLeod & Brian McAdamSaturday, December 31, 2005
Few people in 21st century North America leave home with the front door unlocked.
But in Fidel Castro's Cuba–only 90 miles off the coast of Florida–America's front door has been conveniently left open for Communist China.
China has long been conducting electronic eavesdropping on America from Cuba, rendering American military channels all but wide open.
Some news reports indicate that great numbers of Chinese are monitoring telephone calls at the electronic espionage facility located in Paseo between 11th and 13th Streets in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana.
And now an aging and sour on life Fidel Castro is revving things up.
Just before Christmas, reports from Havana said China extended a "multimillion-dollar loan" to the Castro government.
"Cuba's Castro government announced recently it will be opening a consulate in Guandong, China, in order to support Chinese trade and investment in Cuba." (Jim Burns, OnLine Human Events, Dec. 27, 2005).
With its advantageous geographic location, Cuba is an open door to the U.S. for China.
Cuban Parliament Leader Ricardo Alarcon and Luo Gan, a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, have been talking about the "excellent political, economic and (Communist) party ties between China and Cuba."
Alarcon, according to some wire service reports, stressed that the visit by Luo Gan is an expression of the ties that will continue to strengthen.
For free market-challenged Cubans, the latest Cuban Foreign Trade Ministry's data says buses, pressure cookers, light bulbs, refrigerators, television sets and bicycles from China are now flooding the Cuban economy.
Like its political friend Canada, Cuba is open investment territory for Communist China. Indeed, as of September 2005, China rose from being Cuba's fourth biggest trading partner in 2004 to being the second biggest now.
The Red Dragon has the world's superpower well covered with tentacles in America's northern neighbour and in the Communist island off its Florida coastline.
With American companies like Microsoft and General Motors investing in China, American support for Cuba comes from even more bizarre quarters. It was Teresa Heinz, the wife of Senator John Kerry, who hooked Castro's Cuba up to the Internet by underwater cable.
"A month after Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced an oil discovery off Cuban waters early this year, the government signed a production-sharing agreement with Sinopec, China's second-largest state oil company.
The deal involves drilling just a few dozen miles from Key West. Fla." OnLine Human Events).
After a 12-day tour of Latin America last year, Chinese President Hu Jintao announced his country would invest more than $500-million in Cuba's nickel industry, which includes one of the world's largest nickel reserves.
Cuba will be sending 4,400 tons of nickel per annum to China.
Bicycles, scooters and smoke-belching automobiles long past their safe date are no longer the only means of transportation in Cuba. China will sell 1,000 of the Yutong-brand buses to Cuba on easy credit terms, and has already made good on the delivery of about 200 buses.
Until China began to fill the gap, the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major inconvenience for the Castro government.
By investing in Cuba, China is after bigger game and gets to keep a watchful eye on Uncle Sam.
Under contemporary circumstances, celebrating the end of the Cold War is imprudent. The end of the Cold War only arrested imminent Soviet threat, but went on to morph into a global warming-style threat of takeover by stealth of an unsuspecting U.S. by the insatiable Red Dragon.
Meanwhile, by hooking up Fidel Castro's Cuba to the World Wide Internet, the wife of a certain senator left the country of her residency in a vulnerable position.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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