gordan: dominates the canal zone and we need to understand that although these are civilian companiesed into an attorney once, right away in the middle of 2022, general for just and then head of the u.s. southern command actually took a helicopter trip over the zone, and she said that those facilities could be turned into military ones she was being polite because she was really saying was that china could use those facilities to close off the canal in a wartime. this is a broad issue because china can use the influence in southern and south america and central america intellectually interfere with sustainment flows and deployments of american military assets in the case of a war sue and gordon, this is precisely why the presidents up until very recently of talked about the importance of u.s. control if not a very strong influence with the panama canal which after all, we built which we had the canal zone right up until recently until her southern command space there until 1987 it wasn't too long ago when the democrats understood that as well to cable news try to become president's pa