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"China's Public Security Ministry is set to dispatch a 130-man 'special police' unit to Haiti this month in the first deployment of Chinese forces to the Western Hemisphere," reported Washington Times Pentagon correspondent Bill Gertz on September 7. The police unit is actually composed of riot troops, who will participate in the ongoing UN "stabilization" mission in Haiti.
An administration official who spoke to Gertz anonymously commented that "China's first military presence near U.S. shores would boost Beijing's long-term strategy to 'supplant U.S. influence' in the region." "China is pursuing a maritime strategy in the Caribbean to gain access and ...