Beijing's Road & Belt: China is not only trying to junk the Monroe Doctrine, it wants to establish itself as the head of the OAS

China is "trying to junk the Monroe Doctrine," reports Dick Morris, and "establish itself as the head of the Organization of American States" (OAS).

Attempting to influence the upcoming election of the secretary general of the OAS tomorrow Monday (March 10), a victory for the Surinam candidate would signify a Chinese implantation of the Western hemisphere.

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 … Beijing approaches a country with country with limited resources — mainly, but not uniquely, in Asia and Africa — and offers them very good deals with regards to investments. When the country cannot pay its bills, the offer turns out to be a Trojan Horse with Beijing taking over all or part of a city's infrastructure.

 … The Economist's Telegram reports that

Chinese ambitions to develop a port near Antarctica were “appalling” to America, [Carlos Ruckauf, a former Argentine vice-president and foreign minister] says. China’s space-peering radar station is a “very hard” problem because it is governed by a bilateral treaty.

 … [Already, Beijing is responsible for] Chancay, a Chinese-built and controlled port in Peru, which will be the largest and deepest on South America’s Pacific coast.

It is nothing less than incredible that Beijing managed to build a new Chinese Megaport — the largest on Latin America's Pacific Coast, referred to as China’s gateway to South America — only three or four months ago without it being reported in the West, even by conservative news sites.

 … in his article about waging Diplomatic War in the Central and South Pacific, Austin Bay writes that

Chinese military aircraft and navy warships need forward bases beyond the First Island Chain (Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines).

The new bases also provide the People's Liberation Army with missile launch sites. The closer missile launchers are to U.S. bases such as Pearl Harbor, San Diego and Puget Sound, the better, from Beijing's perspective. All the better for cowing the U.S. Navy.

 … the hearts and minds of people living in these [places] matter. In these small nations, (and that's the current political configuration, nations and confederations) they are vulnerable to the suite of tricks that serves Beijing well in Europe and Washington. The wallets of agents of influence -- diplomatic slang for politicians and media operatives accepting bribes -- are a classic means of first obtaining a weather station, then fishing rights, then naval anchorage rights, then a navy base. After the navy base: a missile launch site.