James Monroe, call your office — or, better yet, ring President Biden — for it looks like Communist China, intensifying a competition for control over the South Pole, is building in Antarctica a satellite base that could serve as a surveillance hub in the very hemisphere that the Monroe Doctrine was intended to protect.
China is getting help from Argentina, now governed by a left-of-center regime. The Chinese, the director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Ryan Berg, tells the Sun, are leveraging their relationship with Buenos Aires to advance their interests in the South Atlantic.
