The Pentagon warns of the risk that China will use the Caribbean to launch an attack on the US.

The United States increases in its official doctrine the risk to its national security posed by the growing presence of China in the Caribbean, with special mention to Cuba and Panama. In his appearance this month before the U.S. Senate, the new head of the Southern Command (the structure of the occupied Pentagon of Latin America) said that the Caribbean archipelago constitutes "a chain of potentially offensive islands", from which Beijing could…