Can America Stop China’s Port Expansion?

By: Matthew Phelan | The National Interest |

Seemingly innocuous shipping containers, filled with death.

That has been the headline twice in a month, as both Ukraine and Israel utilized shipping containers to smuggle into enemy nations drone components and even entire drones capable of delivering devastating precision strikes on strategic military assets. These capabilities are not limited to the small and feisty: China is also developing these capabilities, which is particularly concerning given Beijing’s global reach.

China is Building an Empire of International Ports

One need only glance at China’s expanding control of international ports, and its recent panic at the possibility of losing some of this control through the now-stalled CK Hutchison port deal, to appreciate the growing risk that China will quietly deliver these payloads across the world.

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