Check out the new megaport China built down in Peru

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China’s President Xi and Peruvian President Boluarte just inaugurated a $1.3 billion mega port in Peru’s coastal city of Chancay. Chinese shipping giant Cosco (not to be confused with America’s wholesale giant Costco) paid for the construction of the port.

Here was the port when it was under construction:

The port will reduce shipping times between the countries from 35 to 25 days, thanks to being able to now skip the Los Angeles, California, port. (Hard to blame them for wanting to skip L.A. these days.)

However, many correctly point out that there is limited individual ownership in China. The government is involved with and owns part of every Chinese business.

So, in reality, it was the Chinese who built this megaport in Chancay, Peru, which some fear could double as a military base if tensions spike between the U.S. and China.

U.S. Southern Command chief Army General Laura Richardson characterized China’s infrastructure projects across the Caribbean, Central, and South America as security threats. ‘They’re on the 20-yard line, in the red zone of our homeland.’

Evan Ellis, a professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College, said,

Since Southern Command has responsibility for thinking about what U.S. adversaries could do in time of war from the region, it is perfectly reasonable to identify a risk that a private port, exclusively operated by China’s Cosco in the Western Hemisphere, could be used to support PLA Military operations against the U.S. in time of a war with the People’s Republic of China.

And Cosco has been known to use its shipping vessels in Chinese military operations before.

But would Boluarte allow the Chinese to use Peru’s port as a military base? Let’s see what kind of person she is.

Dina Boluarte, a member of the Marxist political party, Free Peru, was the first woman to become vice president of Peru. Later, in 2022, she inherited the office of president after her running mate, Pedro Castillo, was arrested for trying to dissolve Congress in an attempted coup d’état.

Since then, she has overseen two massacres: the Ayocucho Massacre, and the Juliaca Massacre.