EXPERTS WARN OF CHINA’S INFLUENCE AT U.S. PORTS
Oct 22, 2019
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/experts-warn-of-chinas-influence-at-us-ports
WTF!
National security issue.
The military should take it over and fire all the current workers.
“Foreign investments in such important things to national security and the U.S. economy as ports is a serious thing. However, it is outside the consciousness of most citizens and not something talked about much in the press.”
HISTORIC REFERENCES:
Trump Rids Major U.S. Container Port of Chinese Communist Control
October 08, 2019
U.S. Forces China Out of Port of Long Beach Terminal Ownership
By Jared Vineyard
Posted October 15, 2019
“Foreign investments in such important things to national security and the U.S. economy as ports is a serious thing. However, it is outside the consciousness of most citizens and not something talked about much in the press.
What suddenly seems to have garnered some attention to this story is a Judicial Watch article on the topic. A few people emailed me the article, asking for a blog on the topic.
I am glad the article was sent to me even though Judicial Watch is a bit too politically slanted for my taste (however, what isn’t at this point?), with one section reading:
It all started with a 40-year container terminal lease between the Port of Long Beach in southern California and Hong Kong. The Obama administration proudly signed the agreement in 2012 giving China control of America’s second-largest container port behind the nearby Port of Los Angeles. One of the Trump administration’s first big moves was to get the Communists out of the Port of Long Beach.”
https://www.universalcargo.com/u-s-forces-china-out-of-port-of-long-beach-terminal-ownership/
NPR: “In the past decade, Chinese companies have acquired stakes in 13 ports in Europe, including in Greece, Spain and, most recently, Belgium, according to a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Those ports handle about 10 percent of Europe’s shipping container capacity.
China’s increased control in ports also increases the country’s influence over other nations. It also gives them strategic advantages should conflict arise.
It should also be noted that on top of gaining operational control in ports around the world, 6 of the world’s 10 busiest ports last year were in China itself, according to South China Morning Post. I doubt China is relinquishing control of those ports to other countries.
There’s a certain global dominance China is striving for in international shipping and global business. The U.S. should be wary of giving China that dominance at the ports.”
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/09/642587456/chinese-firms-now-hold-stakes-in-over-a-dozen-european-ports
China Extends Reach in the Caribbean, Unsettling the U.S.
NYT 11-08-2020
The region has strategic importance as a hub for logistics, banking and commerce. It is also very close to the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/world/americas/china-caribbean.html
MCGA
THIS IS A GREAT ARTICLE:
“Security experts warn of China’s influence at US ports”
‘CHINA can use its financial control at foreign ports to create markets through which it can strengthen its trade relationships, according to US-China Economic and Security Review Commission chair Carolyn Bartholomew’
https://www.seanews.com.tr/security-experts-warn-of-chinas-influence-at-us-ports/184582/
How is this ownership even allowed to happen? Our country is so screwed up.
I WILL MAKE A BOLD STATEMENT:
JOE BIDEN IS OLD. BUT, I BELIEVE IS DOES NOT HAVE ALZHEIMER.
HIS BEHAVIOR IS PRACTICED DECEPTION TO COVER FOR HIS TIES TO SOROS, CHINA ETC.
My mother was an Alzheimer victim. I believe Biden is using his behavior as a pitiful distraction from his real pointed agenda: One World Government that could not be accomplished without him.
What was the final result from 2018 I’d love to know!