China’s billion-dollar footprint near Florida coast poses US national security risk, expert warns
The Bahamas are just 50 miles off the coast of South Florida
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China is steadily expanding in the Bahamas through projects that blur economic development and geopolitical aims, an expert warned.
"The People's Republic of China has been making diplomatic, economic and even military and quasi-military inroads into the Caribbean, South and Central America for the past couple of decades," retired Rear Adm. Peter Brown, former Homeland Security advisor to President Donald Trump, told Fox News Digital.
Brown pointed to the rise in dual-use infrastructure projects along the Bahamas coastline, which is located just 50 miles off the coast of Florida.
"It doesn't take a lot of imagination for the People's Republic of China to use its commercial footprint in the Bahamas to monitor, exploit and perhaps even do worse to [the] U.S.," he said.


