Only fools did.
I call them career military politicians :>} of the 0-8 and above pay grade long removed from the realities of national defense and shipboard security. Even our own military ports here in the states are limited in their security. For example 5 carriers at NOB Norfolk at the same time is nothing but arrogance. That is one ship minus half of the entire carrier fleet. Three carriers in Norfolk Naval Shipyards at the same time is not good judgment either.
But really how did they think everybody was going to take this port deal? We live under a color coded security system and are subject to having everything we possess searched for a simple trip on a plane or a mass transit system. At the same time our POTUS's State Department and a few others make a deal with a nation that up till very recently in history just assumed we had vanished off the face of the earth. People have a right to be angry and Washington DC brought this one on itself.