Posted on 09/13/2021 5:01:06 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A powerhouse in global trade, China has more shipping ports at home than any other country. Key investments add about another 100 ports in at least 60 nations. And Beijing is looking for more.
Earlier this month, operations at Israel’s port of Haifa, one of the largest maritime transport hubs in Mediterranean, were handed over to China's state-run Shanghai International Port Group to run for the next 25 years.
Another gigantic Chinese shipping company, COSCO Shipping, is poised to expand its footprint in Europe by taking a stake in the port of Hamburg. Negotiations have been reportedly going well, and a deal is expected soon.
If COSCO succeeds, it would be the company’s eighth port investment in Europe.
The state-owned company's previous investment involves the acquisition of Greece’s Port of Piraeus, one of the world's most important shipping centers located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. COSCO bought 51% of the port’s operating company in 2016. After a Greek court gave the go-ahead last month, COSCO now can raise its stake in Piraeus to 67%.
The Chinese government does not have an official platform summarizing the overall data for China’s overseas port projects, but publicly available information shows that Beijing now has a foothold in at least 100 ports in 63 countries.
According to data published on the COSCO official website, as of June this year, the group has operated and managed 357 terminals in 36 ports around the world. Its port portfolio has stretched from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, Europe and the Mediterranean.
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People have been warned.
I think this is suicidal.
We did it. Israel is doing it. Europe is.
Time to start learning Chinese.
Bkmk
Sounds like a target rich environment.
Yep. And I can remember when Saudis were buying up our ports.
If you want to know what’s going on in CCP oversees shipping, talk to their main guy, Mitch McConnell. McConnell’s Chinese shipping company is one of the very largest. Mitch is personally making tens of millions shipping MAGA back to China. Go GOP!
I don’t recall that, but it interesting to note.
Smile...
If anything, he’s shipping MCGA to the U. S.
His wife’s family is happy I’m sure.
and meanwhile - an interesting article behind paywall. hope someone can excerpt it:
29 Aug: WSJ: Air Cargo Boom in Supply Chain Crunch Has Car Tires Flying First Class
Demand for service boosted ahead of holiday shipping season, with cabins of repurposed passenger planes deployed
By Doug Cameron
The global air cargo sector is flying planes at almost 90% of capacity as record amounts of goods crisscross the globe, bound for free-spending consumers and parts-hungry manufacturers.
Packed planes pose a challenge for shippers, airlines and airports entering the traditional peak U.S. season for moving goods, when demand increases for consumer electronics, household items and clothing ahead of the holiday-shopping spree...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/air-cargo-boom-has-car-tires-flying-first-class-11630242001
Are you maybe saying Mitch signed some secret ethics agreement that keeps the Chao billions in one of those federal lock boxes, out of his reach? They’ve been married 30 years. It is a match made in hell. The worst kind of good ole boy billionaire Uniparty hack (basically a DS mirror image of Biden) and the ultimate behind the scenes, never standing for election, controlling billions in appropriations over the decades super bureaucrat. Look at the global fortune generated by McConnell/Chao Inc. over the last thirty years. Biden sold us out for a few millions and whores for Hunter. That Judas, McConnell, turned thirty pieces of silver into a Chinese fortune.
2) How To - Learn Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd-nZZ4kLGU
Suggested reading : "The Thoughts of Xi Jinping" and the CCP guidelines for your profession.
At least I’ll be able to understand them when I’m lined up
against a wall or in front of a ditch.
I know McConnell is connected through Chao.
More than anything, I think he’s a world class idiot.
As the USA continues to enter the Robotics Age, the cost advantage for using CCP impoverished bio-robots diminishes, and shipping between foes will decline. New technologies change the size optimum for economies of scale, making some locally produced goods cheaper than shipping from far away. Depending on a competitor for anything is a terrible strategy.
At least I’ll be able to understand them when I’m lined up
against a wall or in front of a ditch.
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Or in a clean room as they cut your organs out ...
Clean room?
Why go to that expense?
Any old shack will do.
Clean room? Why go to that expense? Any old shack will do.
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Organs fetch a healthy price and only the most sanitary conditions during their removal will do. Dirty organs are so much dog food. Helping to keep the price down and the profits up was the elimination of an anesthetic for the volunteer donors.
Yeah...
Problem is, we’re talking about China.
The recipient has no idea where the organ came from or what
conditions were like.
China can tell you otherwise but then China also says the
CORONA didn’t come from Wuhan too.
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