China-Backed Ports; China has helped finance 35 ports around the world

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How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port

Under heavy pressure and after months of negotiations with the Chinese, Sri Lanka’s new government handed over the port and 15,000 acres of land around it for 99 years in December.

The transfer gave China control of territory just a few hundred miles off the shores of a rival, India, and a strategic foothold along a critical commercial and military waterway.

The case is one of the most vivid examples of China’s ambitious use of loans and aid to gain influence around the world ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html?rref=collection%2Fspotlightcollection%2Fchina-reach

Chinese ports around the world :

[True Dough]

1. They're building a network

This is yet another example a global powerhouse in the making. No doubt about it. China, like all nations, has its challenges. But it also has lofty ambitions.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. They operate with the state's needs in mind, locking in trade agreements for 20-30 years at a time.

[True Dough]

3. While Dolt 45 blathers about the "Art of the Deal"

China is actually out there securing its future and building a greater presence.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Most of our exported LNG goes to China. We don't frack for domestic use, but for export.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Let's not forget

what happened to our Ports during the Bush/Cheney years. Dubai and UEA as well as the Saudi's took over our Ports. Notice a trend!

[True Dough]

7. It is the diminishment

of the U.S. as a superpower. Perhaps not completely a bad thing, but a trend that bears watching closely.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Yes sir re,

privatization of the Public Infrastructure for PROFIT. If it was not for the Long-shore-man's Union,there would be people working the Docks as slaves or for sub minimum wages . Same thing relates to the Privatized Toll Roads,minimum wage jobs with zero security.

[mainer]

4. Using money instead of military might

China seems to know how to use the carrot instead of the stick.

[sunonmars]

6. You mean like when they built the African union building for free complete with full bugging.

https://qz.com/africa/1192493/china-spied-on-african-union-headquarters-for-five-years/