Texas defends critical infrastructure

 Austin Bay:

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In 2020, despite pandemic production drops, Corpus Christi, Texas, handled 55% of market share of U.S. crude exports. The canal from Corpus to Port Aransas to the Gulf of Mexico can be blocked in several places. Close Houston's or Corpus Christi's connecting channel and American energy and chemical supplies suffer an instant blockade, without the enemy risking naval forces. The entire U.S. economy suffers. The May 2021 Colonial Pipeline cyberhack's economic costs would pale in comparison.

Who perceives our vulnerability? Communist China does. China doesn't need an Atlantic navy to conduct the operation, just saboteurs with position.

So, what do we do?

Some American leaders have real answers. At the moment, the most demonstrable reside in Texas.

This is legislative and executive fact, not Hollywood Texan brag: Texas has begun shouldering a defense burden that Biden Administration Beltway Washington (BABWA) has refused to bear.


Exhibit 1: The Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act, SB 2116, authored by Republican Sen. Donna Campbell (mother of four and MD physician, of Texas Senate District 25) and Rep. Tan Parker, R-Flower Mound. The bill became law June 18.

Bureaucrat lingo: "Relating to prohibiting contracts or other agreements with certain foreign-owned companies in connection with critical infrastructure in this state."

Beyond jargon, there's serious national defense energy. About three years ago a Chinese energy company purchased around 130,000 acres near Laughlin Air Force Base, located near Del Rio, Texas. Thanks to the Biden administration's Haitian migrant border fiasco, Del Rio has national visibility. Laughlin is a U.S. Air Force Air Training Command field. That makes nearby land an intelligence-gathering site.

But there's more! The Chinese company, fronted by billionaire Sun Guangxin (with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party), also wanted to build a wind farm. War bingo: The wind farm would have access to the U.S. power grid.

Would the CCP hack the Texas electrical grid? I ask you.
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There is more.

Texas is having to cover the cost of infrastructure defense projects while Biden sends aid and comfort to the Taliban. From the border wall to energy supplies the Biden administration is AWOL.

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