The situation in the Panama Canal is worse than we thought. Not only does a Chinese company control container ports at each end of the waterway, but a Chinese construction battalion is slowly building a bridge right across the middle. How slowly? Well, the bridge won’t be completed until 2027 and Sen. Ted Cruz thinks he knows why. As Cruz, who is chairman of the Commerce Committee, noted at a hearing this week, “the partially-completed bridge gives China the ability to block the canal without warning…This situation poses acute risks to US national security.” 7 Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping has…