China challenges US with attempt to establish apparent Caribbean satellite state on Antigua and Barbuda

A reminder of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? More island hopping in the future?

"... On the island of Antigua, located about 220 miles from the U.S. Virgin Islands, China is planning to establish a special Chinese-run economic zone, according to documents reviewed by Newsweek. 

The area will have its own customs and immigration facilities, a shipping port and it will even issue passports, per the documents. China will also establish different kinds of businesses that will specialize in things from facial surgery to virology ...

More than two-thirds of the 31 nations under [US] SOUTHCOM's responsibility have signed onto China’s belt-and-road initiative, which is Beijing’s program to lend money to developing nations to use for infrastructure projects.  ..."

China creeps onto US doorstep with attempt to establish apparent Caribbean satellite state | Just The News China's planned actions in the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda may be signaling its plans for the rest of the Western Hemisphere.