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2019-10-10 Government
Pres. Trump Rids Major U.S. Container Port of Chinese Communist Control
[Judicial Watch] 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.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-10 07:45|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1 Between Uranium to the Russians and ports to the Chinese Obama was working to change America into a foreign owned Commie "paradise".

MAGA
Posted by AlanC 2019-10-10 08:22||   2019-10-10 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 'Never Again', America.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-10 08:26||   2019-10-10 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Second American War of Independence?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-10 08:43||   2019-10-10 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 A wakandan in office .
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-10 08:49||   2019-10-10 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 And this is why we can't spare this man. He fights.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-10 08:50||   2019-10-10 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Reminds us why 2020 is so important.
Don't let those idiotic globalists back inside the White House.
Posted by Lex 2019-10-10 09:38||   2019-10-10 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Bill Clinton got the Chi_Coms a foothold in the port in 1997.

At the same time the same Chinese company was being reprimanded by US Officials for dumping 640 tons of waste from the US into the ocean that was supposed to be disposed in Asia.

And people wander why whales beach themselves.
Posted by Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-10-10 10:53||   2019-10-10 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 What did the Chinese kickback to those in this country who inked this bum deal?
Posted by JohnQC 2019-10-10 12:25||   2019-10-10 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 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.

It's almost as though Obama was trying to destroy the country on purpose.

/sarc
Posted by Raj 2019-10-10 13:01||   2019-10-10 13:01|| Front Page Top

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