Is China building a canal thru Nicaragua? It's supposed to be wide enough (wider than the Panama Canal) to accommodate super tankers and other ships too big for the Panama Canal. Saw a Facebook video by Dick Morris warning of this. But other than that, I've only seen some blurbs about it in various blogs and articles. But those were all strictly saying China and Nicaragua had met and discussed the possibility. Nothing really concrete (pardon the pun).
This would be a HUGE engineering undertaking. It would require digging a canal through solid ground 6X longer than the Panama Canal. It would be just north of the Costa Rican border and pass thru an environmentally sensitive area, a biological preserve rain forest. Whoa! I can just see the hippies from California chaining themselves to Chinese bulldozers!
Why would China do this? It would be very expensive and difficult. Well, you know the answer. It would render the Panama Canal practically obsolete and give the Chicoms control of international shipping in the western hemisphere. Dick Morris says this is a violation of the Monroe Doctrine and would compel the US to take action up to, and including, military action.
The sheer magnitude of the project makes it nearly impossible. Certainly impractical. The Chicoms would be better served using those hundreds of $billions buying off Panamanian officials in exchange for control of their canal.