Republican Rep.: Why it is time to introduce the neighborhood guard in the western hemisphere | Opinion

The concept of “neighborhood guard” is one with which most Americans are known. A group of neighbors works together to combat crime and promote security by maintaining the reporting on suspicious activities and maintaining consistent communication with law enforcement agencies and maintaining one another.

It is time for the United States and our partners of the western hemisphere take over this simple model. However, this only works if it is a collective effort. It requires all invested parties to actively commit and participate.

The United States and our allies are facing unprecedented threats to highly developed opponents that weaken our alliances, undermine our way of life and worsen our willingness.

In the past 20 years, while the United States was waging war against terror, our opponents in the western hemisphere have made a clear effort to avoid the position of the United States as a global guide and take advantage of our neighbors. Russia and the Communist Party of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have launched secret duty missions here on the US floor, since the KPCH has initiated an economic chokehold on South American countries through its belt and street initiative (BRI) and corruption. These opponents send a clear message to the USA: we are within reach.

The most terrifying and overlooked illustration of the ubiquitous influence and the investment of the KPCH is only for miles in front of the southeast coast of the USA on the Caribbean islands. In countries such as Suriname, Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas and other countries, the KPCH has dug their financial claws into these economies and initiated billions of dollars into infrastructure projects. From 2022, 10 Caribbean countries of the CCP initiative of the KPCH have joined.

This resource density part of the western hemisphere offers several strategic advantages for Beijing and its final pursuit of global dominance. Conclusion – The KPCH has its sights on the Caribbean community (Caricom), and its location in the western hemisphere is not accidental.

I have traveled to a large scale since 2017. In my many conversations with the leaders of these countries, they made it clear that the United States is its preferred partner. However, China shows that through predatory investments, improvements in the infrastructure and offers on site offers false hope. Since the KPCH can become extremely nimble and enable your civil servants to write checks before you get up from the negotiating table, many Caricom country guides are brought into a position in which you take up immediate economic benefits before evaluating risks or alternative options.

In the past 20 years, when Caricom was not on the radar of someone as susceptibility, the state KPCP companies in these countries had immersed them in a comprehensive structure of critical infrastructure. As a rule, the people of the Caricom Nation did not know that this was a KPCP strategy to counter the United States and to expand their control into the western hemisphere.

In order to protect the US and economic security interests, we have to involve our neighbors and deliver specific partnership gestures. The Trump administration have already taken measures to contain and counteract the influence of the KPCH in the most inconspicuous places.

During the recently visited State Secretary Marco Rubio, he no longer opened the failure of US companies to use the investment opportunities in the Caricom region. He is right – if more US companies are involved in the region, these countries are not dependent on the shameful and predatory partnerships of the KPCH.

The KPCH plays the long game and we also have to focus on long -term results. They eat our lunch and we cannot afford to continue looking in the other direction.

The growing influence and the investment in our quarter of the western hemisphere make it clear that we are all together in this fight. A “whole hemisphere” approach is necessary to combat the growing aggression of the KPCH. The USA and its partners can still win in a peer-to-peer competition if we act quickly and uniformly.

The United States and our regional partners have the opportunity to gain economically and present them to involve Caricom countries in a model of capitalism that serves to grow and thrive their own needs and at the same time address our individual strategic national security interests.

What I know are the USA and its neighbors Western hemisphere have far too much to lose when we drop by and do nothing.

Congressman Rick Crawford (Ark.-01) is the chairman of the House permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The views expressed in this article are those of the writer.