<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Communist China</a> is beginning to rapidly increase its footprint in the Caribbean as it seeks to dethrone the United States as the world&#8217;s leading superpower.</p>
<p>Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/2024/05/03/china-caribbean-united-states-antigua-belt-road-diplomacy-debt-chinese-xi-jinping-rivalry-1891668.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that just a couple hundred miles away from the U.S. Virgin Islands, China has started to take over the paradise island of Antigua.</p>
<p>China is constructing a Chinese-run special economic zone on the island that &#8220;will have its own customs and immigration formalities, a shipping port and a dedicated airline and will be able to issue passports,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;It will establish businesses offering everything from logistics to cryptocurrencies, facial surgery to &#8216;virology.'&#8221;</p>
<p>China&#8217;s encroachment on what is known as &#8220;America&#8217;s third border&#8221; has U.S. officials alarmed because China uses these developments and upgrades to a country&#8217;s infrastructure as a way to bring their own military into a new region.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are aware that China may use its commercial and diplomatic presence for military purposes,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Florida-based Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) told Newsweek. &#8220;In Asia, Africa and the Middle East, China has already abused commercial agreements at host-country ports for military aims; our concern is they may do the same in this region.&#8221;</p>
<p>The report said that Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne is a huge supporter of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and the communist nation has become Antigua&#8217;s favorite country to borrow money from. Members of Antigua&#8217;s government refused to tell the publication how much the country owed China.</p>
<p>He said that even the insinuation that China could be doing anything nefarious was &#8220;utter rubbish.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Given the breadth of investment into logistics infrastructure China has made in the Caribbean, we are concerned that China could task its state-owned enterprises and diaspora to conduct intelligence or influence operations against the U.S. and our partners in the region for military purposes,&#8221; SOUTHCOM said. &#8220;Those concerns are further heightened when you consider the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s practice of targeting, recruiting and bribing officials.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gisele Isaac, chairwoman of the United Progressive Party in Antigua, warned that Browne had sold out the country to the Chinese.</p>
<p>&#8220;Antigua has traded its sovereignty, I think most of us believe, to China,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think China wants a foothold in more strategic places, as a superpower. I think that this administration has become, and that&#8217;s our concern, overly reliant on one partner, that partner being China.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Everybody feels like their testicles are in a vise; that if you say the wrong thing, if you align yourself the wrong way, you&#8217;re putting yourself in danger,&#8221; Isaac said. &#8220;At night, I switch on my alarm and say my prayers.&#8221;</p>
<p>China&#8217;s new embassy on the island is such an intimidating compound that locals often stop and take photos of it, the report said.</p>
<p>Antigua sold China the five acres of land for its embassy for the equivalent of 40 U.S. cents.</p>
<p>Multiple regional officials said that they believe the &#8220;embassy&#8221; was really &#8220;an intelligence base, or a listening post,&#8221; the report said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We assess that any intelligence activities conducted by the People&#8217;s Republic of China in the Caribbean will almost certainly be targeted at U.S. and regional commercial and military movements in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean,&#8221; SOUTHCOM added.</p>
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