"That, of course, remains to be seen, doesn't it?"
No, it doesn't. You lost.
I lost? Did you think this was a GAME?
Perhaps you'd be better off spending more time answering Rokke's question, than trying to make me feel WRONG.
Apparently you're not quite as "right" as you pretend to be.
Except that right now, DP World owns P&O. P&O is gone. DP World now owns the U.S. subsidiaries that run the terminals.
In other words, the deal is DONE, and at this moment, it is exactly what the opponents wanted to STOP.
The only way DP World ends up NOT running the terminals is if either Congress passes a law to prevent it, or if DP World, out of the kindness of its heart (or more clearly out of the desire to maximize the profit potential) sells the american companies to another company.
And since the side deals they were offering were trashed by congress, we can't even count on them -- for example, they promised to hold off taking control for the 45-day period, but when congress voted to ban the deal that ended the deal and so now they can legally throw out the americans and put their people in if they want (they won't).
In fact, the people who said that we shouldn't STOP this deal because legally there was no reason to do so, and we are the rule of law -- these people WON, because the law was followed, the deal was approved, and the P&O stockholders got to sell their company on the open market as they desired.
The port opponents who are so happy they "won", and are gloating -- the only reason they will "win" is because there arguments were false.
In other words, it's because UAE IS our friend and ally, because DP World DIDN'T buy P&O to take over our terminals, because DP World DOES value our cooperation, and therefore will sell off the assets to protect the strong relationship we have with them -- because they will act totally contrary to what the opponents claimed about them -- that's why the opponents will win.
I just watched at Start Trek -TNG rerun, where Captain Picard tells a native to go ahead and shoot him to prove that he's not a God. The guy does shoot him, and the bleeding body reveals the truth.
If the native was like the opponents, he'd be cheering that he had wounded the captain -- whereas in the show they native realised the captain wasn't lying, and that he was wrong.
The opponents WIN because they were wrong and UAE/DP World are acting like adults.