TRUMP RIDS MAJOR U.S. CONTAINER PORT OF CHINESE COMMUNIST CONTROL

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/trump-rids-major-u-s-container-port-of-chinese-communist-control/

TRUMP RIDS MAJOR U.S. CONTAINER PORT OF CHINESE COMMUNIST CONTROL

Under a long-term deal sealed by the Obama administration, a Chinese Communist company was set to control the second-busiest container port in the United States. In an unreported Trump administration victory, the Communists are out after a drawn-out national security review forced a unit of China-based COSCO Shipping Holdings Co. (Orient Overseas Container Line—OOCL) to sell the cherished container terminal business, which handles among the largest freight of imports into the U.S.

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. After a national security review and federal intervention, the Long Beach terminal business, which handles millions of containers annually, is finally being sold to an Australian company called Macquarie Infrastructure Partners. That essentially kills China’s decades-long contract with the Obama administration.

The deal never should have been signed in the first place considering the facility’s size, significance and the national security issues associated with a hostile foreign government controlling it. The southern California port is the premier U.S. gateway for trans-Pacific trade, according to its website, and handles trade valued at more than $194 billion annually. It is one of the few ports that can accommodate the world’s largest vessels and serves 140 shipping lines with connections to 217 seaports around the world. The facility encompasses 3,200 acres with 31 miles of waterfront, 10 piers, 62 berths and 68 post-Panamax gantry cranes. In 2018, the Long Beach port handled more than 8 million container units, achieving the busiest year in its history.

I remember the What the Hell are they thinking discussions of this move by Obama back when he did it. Yet another piece of perverse Obamian Legacy undone by Trump.

[skeeter]

Very good news

for those who still have open minds.

[PeteS in CA]

Very good news

for those who still have open minds.

I'm having trouble keeping track of Progs' political gyrations about which countries are bogeymen and which are not.

Is Russia still a bogeyman? Or are they on the bogey-shelf for now?

Has Ukraine become a bogeyman for investigating Hunter Biden and agreeing that Trump wasn't pressuring them to do anything?

Is China a bogeyman because of Xinjiang or good for fighting Trump over trade? And have Proggies decided whether the problems in Hong Kong make China a bogeyman or the good guys.

[skeeter]

I'm having trouble keeping track of Progs' political gyrations about which countries are bogeymen and which are not.

Is Russia still a bogeyman? Or are they on the bogey-shelf for now?

Has Ukraine become a bogeyman for investigating Hunter Biden and agreeing that Trump wasn't pressuring them to do anything?

Is China a bogeyman because of Xinjiang or good for fighting Trump over trade? And have Proggies decided whether the problems in Hong Kong make China a bogeyman or the good guys.

The only thing that concerns the left are their political prospects. Every policy they have, foreign policy included, has that at its nucleus.

[Fishrrman]

Just one more (of many) good move by the Trump administration.

But it's not just the democrat-communists like obama that do this.
Remember "Dubai Ports" (or whatever that was)...?