The implications of this management deal should be obvious. In case of war, it will greatly hamper the ability of the US Navy to get ships from one ocean to another quickly.
Couple this with the fact that China now has a military base on the US mainland. A couple of years ago, the Clinton administration sold the Long Beach Naval Air Station to the China Overseas Shipping Company (COSCO). COSCO is using the facility as a port, but anybody who thinks that the Chinese military isn't ready to make the fullest possible use of the base at a moment's notice is living in a fantasy world.End snip
So now the 'Independent' closet leftist Santos is ready to hand Colombia to China on a silver platter. Precious.
We build BIG SHIPS.
We are also a very wealthy nation so we have a multi-basin fleet (there being only one ocean on the planet).
We keep ships off China, in the Middle East, in the Mediterranean, somewhere else, and even somewhere else again ~ whole huge bunches of them AND THEN there's the nuclear fleet ~ it'll get you if nothing else does.
In case of serious trouble we fly bombers out of Missouri to any point on Earth.