Operations at the new super-modern, deepwater port which China’s COSCO is completing in Chancay, Peru, are set to be inaugurated next month, with President Xi Jinping joining President Dina Boluarte in Lima in launching this great project, which is key to transforming the entire South American economy into an industrial powerhouse. The madmen in London and Washington are hell-bent on stopping this development, come what may, pumping out threats against the port similar to those made against Russia and Germany’s Nord Stream pipelines before they were blown up.
The latest propaganda salvo came from London’s Daily Telegraph, which published a Sept. 24 article, threatening that the Chancay port will make Peru a target in the U.S.-China “world war” which is assumed to be come. The Telegraph’s piece was then amplified by such South American dailies as Argentina’s U.S. Embassy-favored Infobae daily, whose headline screamed “Chancay Megaport Could Be Used by Chinese Navy for `Operations against U.S. West Coast,’ warns The Telegraph.” The YouTube channel called “Canalthe,” told its heavily Peruvian audience: “United Kingdom Warns Peru of World War and a Danger to Its Territory.”
U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute professor Evan Ellis, a civilian known to coordinate closely with the U.S. Southern Command, was (as usual) the leading “source” cited for this bellicose stupidity. Ellis told the Telegraph that “in a conflict with the West, Chancay could even be used by the Chinese navy to support `operations against the West Coast’ of the United States…. If there’s an exemplary case for the use of a commercial port by the Chinese to receive and resupply Chinese navy ships in the Western Hemisphere during a war with the United States, or surreptitiously use a commercial port for military purposes, this is it.”
Ellis says that “Chancay’s location even means that an exchange of military strikes between the U.S. and mainland China would be `survivable’ for Chinese warships docked there,” the Telegraph added.
The Telegraph signalled that the designation of Peru’s Chancay port as a casus belli is only the start; “hundreds” of such Chinese-supported development projects along the Belt and Road will also be so designated.
“Experts are warning that like all projects under the Belt and Road Initiative … it must by Chinese law be technically capable of also serving the People’s Liberation Army, which incorporates the Chinese navy,” the article claims. “Chancay is typical of the `first civilian, later military’ logic of hundreds of Belt and Road projects around the world,” the Telegraph pronounces, citing Danny Russel, Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former Assistant Secretary of State under Obama, as its source for this intention.
