Connexion
After all the MAGA chest‑thumping and Wall Street back‑patting, Panama’s crown jewels – Balboa and Cristobal – along with 40+ global gateways are now sailing straight into the hands of Chinese shipping giant COSCO.
How did this chess game unfold?
March: BlackRock (https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/53919) trumpets a $22.8 billion deal with Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison – 199 berths in 23 countries, shiny infrastructure, and IT.
The big prize? Two Panama ports. Donald Trump, setting the goal of “bringing the Canal back,” bragged after BlackRock CEO Larry Fink pitched him about the deal: “The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others!”
But as the proverb says, there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.
March 28: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) intervened, delaying the deal on the grounds that it challenges the Belt and Road Initiative.
Mid‑July: The Wall Street Journal reveals Beijing’s alleged terms: No COSCO, no deal. COSCO – China’s state‑owned shipping giant – wants a seat at the table.
July 28: CK Hutchison allowed BlackRock’s exclusivity to expire and announced it would invite “a major strategic investor from the PRC” – widely understood to be COSCO, per the Financial Times – into the consortium.
While it leaves the door open for BlackRock-led consortium offers, without Beijing’s consent there would be no final transaction.
The outcome: Beijing could gain even greater control of the Panama Canal; COSCO strengthens its global maritime position, while China retains its lead as the world’s largest trading, shipbuilding, and manufacturing economy.
In Latin America, I’m way too close to the US.
-Def Sec Hegseth has BIG plans ‘to coordinate US Military activities with our Panamanian partners.’ ‘We also continue to deepen cooperation in the long run’ https://t.me/rtnews/90225
-We will take back Panama Canal from China’s influence — SecDef Hegseth https://t.me/rtnews/90224
A reminder: The current empire is attempting to grow (reference to Trump’s inauguration speech where he said this). They may be successful or not, but they will manage to pirate some. In the previous Trump administration, (2017) they simply seized three Russian diplomatic posts, Russia’s property, like a bunch of pirates or crusader robbers. A little more forward in time, the whole messy thieving lot stole and froze Russia’s Central Bank accounts held external to Russia for easy trade. I won’t put it beyond them to simply walk in and take over, rob and steal and pirate China’s two ports, which China built at the Panama Canal. Watch it, this is a prediction.
Now we segue and focus on the honest and not the pirates.
A few months ago, we were talking about various saving schemes (Latin America has some successful ones) and various micro business loan schemes, as in India. A very kind contributor even offered seed capital to start such an initiative. At that time, I was not ready. Now, I am. So, this is a proposal or rather, more of a suggestion at this stage because I am gasping for what is good, right, and human.
I envisage a conversation first. There are two possibilities, but there may be more after a conversation.
1. Be good to one another and, thus, cancel some of the piracy. We could do a savings scheme like they do in Latin America and Africa (usually woman-led), where we create a fund, and each month or period, one of the members receives the entire fund—a little extra for the household or to stave off the sanctions or tariffs or taxes.
2. Or, if we are brave, create a micro-lending scheme where all members could vote on a good micro business initiative, and we could fund such initiatives in various locales across the world.
3. A combination of these two could also work.
What should be self-evident is that rules must be agreed upon and written down. We need to be rules-based.
After a year or so, we could slot in at BRICS as a newly formed BRICS micro-loan organization. That is totally doable.
What would it feel like to fund the development of a new growing field in one of Venezuela’s fast-growing communes? How would it be to fund a delivery bicycle to someone out of Bangladesh to ease their deliveries and improve their business? How proud a heart to know that you have been part of an initiative to bring a stipend or part to one of Cuba’s traveling doctors? Envision finding a marketing guru to create the packaging for a shea butter producer out of the Sahel States.
Could we transform ourselves to be real assistance to real resistance?
GlobalSouth.co will continue, but it could be time for us to grow. This is the nutshell.
Now, I am in your hands and in your discussion. Could we be part of the new paradigm? Could we transform to be a real human ‘piece of real estate’ to psychologically withstand the Gaza Beachfront Real Estate thievery?
Therefore, each micro activity must withstand macro insanity.
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