{"id":683951,"date":"2025-12-19T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=683951"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:36:09","slug":"china-demands-control-of-panama-ports-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=683951","title":{"rendered":"China demands control of Panama ports operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Negotiations for the sale of Panama Canal port facilities and operations at 40 other ports hit a dead end after China demanded a controlling interest as a condition of the deal.\u00a0Beijing is demanding that state-owned shipping line Cosco get a controlling stake in the $22.8 billion sale of CK Hutchison Holdings (0000.HK), the Hong Kong conglomerate owned by billionaire Li Ka-shing.<\/h4>\n<p>The Panama ports are at the center of a geopolitical tug of war after President Donald Trump threatened to take back control of the Panama Canal, which he claimed was under China\u2019s control. Cosco has also been a target of the administration, after a U.S. probe found Beijing leveraged anti-competitive measures to build a dominant position in shipping and shipbuilding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/report-china-demands-control-of-panama-ports-operator\">https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/report-china-demands-control-of-panama-ports-operator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations for the sale of Panama Canal port facilities and operations at 40 other ports hit a dead end after China demanded a controlling interest as a condition of the deal.\u00a0Beijing is demanding that state-owned shipping line Cosco get a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=683951\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683953,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683951\/revisions\/683953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}