[Will88]

The Chinese company SIPG won the bid to expand the Haifa Port three and a half years ago. The project is slated to be inaugurated in 2021 and calls for the Chinese company, which also operates the Port of Shanghai, to run the Haifa Port for 25 years. Another Chinese firm won the bid to build a new port at Ashdod.

Why in hell does Israel need any foreign country to invest in and expand its ports, let alone run them? This will prove to be a dumb as the US giveaway policies with China over the past several decades.

And China is involved in other large construction projects in Israel. This is a surprising and troubling bit of news.

[PIF]

How long before the PLAN has ships visiting the ports on a more or less steady rotation, making those two ports defacto PLAN bases?

[Gen.Blather]

“This is a surprising and troubling bit of news. “

History is full of examples where aggressive powers use the mechanisms of the countries they are aggressing against to their advantage.

Here’s an example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRnPIG50qY

[bert]

The Chinese company is perhaps the best port operations company in the world.

As I recall, the port of Shanghai handles the largest volume of container freight of any port in the world.