[Lower Deck]

A month ago, a Nicaraguan committee approved Chinese billionaire Wang Jing's project to create The Nicaraguan Canal. With a planned capacity to accommodate ships with loaded displacement of 400,000 tons (notably bigger than The Panama Canal)...

So how much demand is there for a canal capable of handling ships displacing 400,000 tons? Right now the only ships that size are the T1 tankers running oil from the middle east to Europe and Asia. Those aren't going to do that via Nicaragua. The Panama Canal Expansion, due to go into service in a year or two, can easily handle the largest container ships. It would seem to me that the Nicaragua project will be a canal without a customer.

[Osage Orange]

Might be a conduit for ChiCom war ships.............