Then Kerry meant the money would come from private investors paid off, in a “crony capitalistic” way, by U.S. taxpayers and their children and their children’s children by borrowing from China and money printing.
You basically dump into a pit, and wait till it’s gone, and then ask for more.
Now, if they said....we need a real harbor, and some cranes to off-load, that might relate to some possible positives for the local business community. But these are never the type to think of projects that people buy into.