Mocking the Monroe Doctrine
Chinese Communists set to open megaport in Peru.

American ingenuity was on full display in August 1914, when Steam Ship Ancon became the first vessel to sail the Panama Canal. Ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt, the construction of a waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific was a building block of what became known as the American Century. Come November Chairman Xi will declare open a deep-sea megaport at Chancay, Peru, hoping it will usher in a Communist Chinese millennia.
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