[Paul Ross]

We have Chicoms running ports left, right and sideways in this country

And do you think that is a good thing? Do you defend it openly?

..yet a hissy fit gets thrown when a business from a nation providing vital logistic support to our military effort wants to invest here.

It turns out that it was really Saudi money backing DPW (kind of a laundering operation)...which was and still is, an arm of the UAE government. A state-owned entity.

[muawiyah]

Turns out every rail line in Europe is state owned. Turns out nearly 100% of all the containers that go through or originate in Europe are handled by state owned rail, and those same rail lines own (or directly mortgage) the containers themselves.

When they show up here they've not been in private hands for a long time.

If they show up at the Port of New York they don't get into NGO hands until they're out there in somebody's parking lot at a shopping center.

State ownership is not, in and of itself, relevant to this particular debate.