Dayton Reporter

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford has expressed concern over recent developments in Honduras involving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Reports indicate that Honduras has opened its first Confucius Institute and awarded a significant grid expansion project to a CCP-owned power company.

Chairman Crawford stated, "The CCP is ramping up its influence in the Western Hemisphere. In one day’s worth of reporting, we have seen the CCP dig its claws into the Honduran power grid and education system. The current leadership of Honduras is playing a dangerous game with the Honduran people’s future by partnering with the corrupt CCP’s exploitative foreign policy."

He further emphasized, "The CCP is playing the long game, and right now the U.S is falling behind in offering our neighbors another option as a preferred partner. This is a fight for the security and prosperity of our Western Hemisphere neighborhood with too much on the line to sit back and admire the problem."