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They do own ports in China but those are explicitly excluded from the sale.
IMO. The original deal almost certainly included those ports. If you look at what they did. They are selling all their foreign port assets and keeping their Chinese port assets. Lots of legal work spanning several countries, balance/asset reviews, which affects price negotiation. This sale was probably in the works for months already.
Hutchison claim the deal was already underway before Trump came into office
I don't think this will happen, but if it does, it will be very funny to see the reaction of the Europeans. Ursula von Der Lie will have to propose increasing it to 1.6 trillion euros instead of 800 billion euros.
Musk is going to die of 马上风.
To be fair Year of the Horse is less than 366 days away.
This video is a must watch for those who keep insisting despite evidence to the contrary that NATO expansion has nothing to do with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Bring back the funny thread.
The entire anti-Russian strategy was already outlined by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski was known for his realist foreign policy, considered by some to be the Democratic Party's answer to the realism of Henry Kissinger of the Republican Party.
A Geostrategy for Eurasia
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a man who needs no introduction. The debate was intense about how to expand NATO. 1994 was the year of NATO's expansion towards Russia's borders. As you can see in the image, you will see that Belarus, Ukraine and Georgia will be the stage for NATO's expansion towards the east and the Black Sea will become a NATO lake. As it happened recently, Finland and Sweden will also be the stage for NATO's expansion, which ended up happening, Russia will be surrounded in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, NATO's expansion will go from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea.Not only that, after the implosion of the USSR, after the implosion of Yugoslavia, Russia was still a very large state and could be a threat to the US, so Russia also needed to be divided, and that is why the image includes three parts of a divided Russia, a part of Russia in the western part with more ties to Europe and consequently to NATO, a republic in Siberia and another in the Far East, all three republics aligned with the US, offering ties with the Americans to contain China in the future, which explains a large part of Eurasia as a zone of Chinese influence, thus representing a China that should be contained in the future.
All this happened under the diplomatic shoulders of an American: Victoria Nuland. Nuland was a very dedicated disciple of Brzezinski, having incorporated her mentor's ideas into the center of US policy decisions, from 2003 until her retirement in 2024.