China expands influence near wealthy Florida enclave as migrants from communist country flood into US
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Gordon G. Chang, an author and expert on U.S.-China relations, discussed China's influence in the Caribbean region and the Panama Canal conflict with the Trump White House.
A truck drives past Cosco and China Shipping shipping containers in the Port of Miami in Miami, Florida, U.S., May 19, 2016. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to watch as people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City on February 3, 2025. (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/Pool AP/AFP via Getty Images) President Jimmy Carter speaks next to his wife Rosalynn upon arrival to Panama City to sign the Panama Canal Treaty, June 16, 1978. (AP Photo) Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a U.S. writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
"I think the Chinese are trying to gain influence in a region which is very close to the American homeland," Gordon G. Chang, an author and expert on U.S.-China relations told Fox News Digital. Story tips and ideas can be sent to sarah.rumpf@fox.com and on X: @s_rumpfwhitten.
Chang pointed to the $3.4-billion Freeport Container port project in the Bahamas, just 87 miles east of Palm Beach, Florida.
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