Trump Rids Major U.S. Container Port of Chinese Communist Control

NightHawkeye said:

Did you happen to read the linked article in OP?

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The original lease was with the HK based, originally Taiwanese, company, as above. It was bought out by the mainland Chinese company in 2017 (who was President then? Seems like a long time ago). This company offered to transfer the lease into a US based trust, the govt declined. There are more details here: China’s Global Port Play

There’s an article in the WSJ I read yesterday with more details about COSCO’s decision to sell last year, I’ll find it again later.

NightHawkeye said:

Perhaps you missed this?

... the U.S. government, which regulates mergers for antitrust and security reasons, stepped in and required COSCO to sell its rights to the container terminal.​

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Yes, but ‘saying stuff’ is not evidence, unless you write for JW of course.

NightHawkeye said:

Noting that JW is all about evidence. Evidence is what they do.

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Where’s the evidence in this case? There is zero evidence of their claim in the article posted, just a series of unsupported assertions. I watched some of their vids gathering ‘evidence’ of conspiracies among refugees, unless that was a complete aberration and they usually do things completely differently, then they should not be trusted by anyone to provide anything approaching a balanced or accurate veiwpoint.

NightHawkeye said:

See post #19. repeated here:

... the U.S. government, which regulates mergers for antitrust and security reasons, stepped in and required COSCO to sell its rights to the container terminal.​

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And what was Trump's role? Did he even know about it? The government is not Trump.

NightHawkeye said:

You are free to prove anything in their report wrong.

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You can check some of the earlier posts and respond to those if you think they aren’t accurate, e.g. the lease not being with ‘Chinese communists’, the details of the actual events in the linked articles and so on.
One of the differences between JW and news articles is the use of information that can be verified. When reading a real news source, there are things quoted that can be checked etc. JW is simply the written equivalent of a guy in a bar saying what he thinks about stuff, you can’t prove him right or wrong, it’s just a bunch of stuff he happens to think.

NightHawkeye said:

From the "Long Beach", files: 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.
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Removing Chinese Communists from this essential port is a tremendous feat and a huge victory for U.S. national security. You’d never know it because the media, consumed with the impeachment debacle, has ignored this important achievement. The only coverage of the finalized transfer is found in Long Beach’s local newspaper, which published a brief article omitting important background information on the Trump administration’s work to take back the terminal from the Communists. The story makes it seem like a regular business transaction in which “a Chinese state-owned company, reached a deal to sell the terminal, one of the busiest in the port, for $1.78 billion.” The piece also quotes the Port of Long Beach’s deputy executive director saying that the transaction process was intricate and involved one of “our most valuable port assets.” Buried at the bottom of the article is a sentence mentioning that the U.S. government, which regulates mergers for antitrust and security reasons, stepped in and required COSCO to sell its rights to the container terminal.​

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It certainly is news if Trump does the rare good thing.