{"id":106549,"date":"2025-03-15T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-hong-kong-group-ck-hutchison-criticized-by-beijing-for-having-sold-its-ports-in-panama-to-an-american-fund\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:58:08","slug":"the-hong-kong-group-ck-hutchison-criticized-by-beijing-for-having-sold-its-ports-in-panama-to-an-american-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-hong-kong-group-ck-hutchison-criticized-by-beijing-for-having-sold-its-ports-in-panama-to-an-american-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hong Kong Group CK Hutchison criticized by Beijing for having sold its ports in Panama to an American fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\"><source srcset=\" https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/14\/0\/0\/4584\/3056\/556\/0\/75\/0\/5a76485_ftp-import-images-1-rh1rdq1m6pyw-2025-03-14t070522z-1462612380-rc2k6dajmie9-rtrmadp-3-ckh-holdings-china.JPG 556w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/14\/0\/0\/4584\/3056\/600\/0\/75\/0\/5a76485_ftp-import-images-1-rh1rdq1m6pyw-2025-03-14t070522z-1462612380-rc2k6dajmie9-rtrmadp-3-ckh-holdings-china.JPG 600w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/14\/0\/0\/4584\/3056\/664\/0\/75\/0\/5a76485_ftp-import-images-1-rh1rdq1m6pyw-2025-03-14t070522z-1462612380-rc2k6dajmie9-rtrmadp-3-ckh-holdings-china.JPG 664w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/14\/0\/0\/4584\/3056\/700\/0\/75\/0\/5a76485_ftp-import-images-1-rh1rdq1m6pyw-2025-03-14t070522z-1462612380-rc2k6dajmie9-rtrmadp-3-ckh-holdings-china.JPG 700w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/14\/0\/0\/4584\/3056\/800\/0\/75\/0\/5a76485_ftp-import-images-1-rh1rdq1m6pyw-2025-03-14t070522z-1462612380-rc2k6dajmie9-rtrmadp-3-ckh-holdings-china.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw\" alt=\"Le port de Balboa, g\u00e9r\u00e9 par CK Hutchison et situ\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019entr\u00e9e du canal de Panama, \u00e0 Panama City, le 4\u00a0mars\u00a02025.\" width=\"664\" height=\"443\"><\/source><\/picture> <noscript> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/14\/0\/0\/4584\/3056\/664\/0\/75\/0\/5a76485_ftp-import-images-1-rh1rdq1m6pyw-2025-03-14t070522z-1462612380-rc2k6dajmie9-rtrmadp-3-ckh-holdings-china.JPG\" alt=\"The port of Balboa, managed by CK Hutchison and located at the entrance to the Panama Canal, in Panama City, on March 4, 2025.\"\/> <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The port of Balboa, managed by CK Hutchison and located at the entrance to the Panama Canal, in Panama City, on March 4, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00c9n\u00e9a Lebrun \/ Reuters<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">The news surprised everyone. On March 4, a few weeks after a tirade by the American president, Donald Trump, calling for an end to a supposed Chinese grip on the Panama Canal, the Hong Kong group CK Hutchison declared that it has given way to a consortium led by the American active manager Blackrock most of his port activities.<\/p>\n<section class=\"catcher catcher--favoris\">\n<p> <button class=\"lmd-btn-icon lmd-btn-icon--primary lmd-btn-icon--m js-lmd-dropdown-favorite-toggler\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-controls=\"lmd-dropdown-favorite\" aria-label=\"Lire plus tard\" data-article-id=\"3412864\" data-position=\"lire aussi\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/economie\/article\/2025\/03\/04\/les-ports-chinois-de-panama-passent-sous-pavillon-des-etats-unis_6576413_3234.html\" data-status=\"\"> <span class=\"icon__favorites\"\/> <span class=\"js-btn-icon-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">A heritage worth $ 22.8 billion (21.5 billion euros), including two particularly strategic ports, those of Balboa and Cristobal, arranged at each end of the Panama Canal, and which he has controlled since 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">Even if the ships using the canal do not have to stop in these ports, many investors wondered how such an agreement could well have obtained the downstream of Beijing. But Beijing would probably not even have been made aware. This is what we understand when reading a long comment published on Thursday March 13, in the Hong Kong daily <em>Your kung pao<\/em>deemed aligned with the official Chinese position. This same text was then distributed in its entirety on the website of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Bureau of the Council for State Affairs, a sign of its support by the Chinese central government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \"><strong>You have 70.73% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\">Tm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The port of Balboa, managed by CK Hutchison and located at the entrance to the Panama Canal, in Panama City, on March 4, 2025. \u00c9n\u00e9a Lebrun \/ Reuters The news surprised everyone. On March 4, a few weeks after a tirade by the American president, Donald Trump, calling for an end to a supposed Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2381,14628,4568,4827,2205,3652,23802,3653,19733,5208,2785],"class_list":["post-106549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-american","tag-beijing","tag-criticized","tag-fund","tag-group","tag-hong","tag-hutchison","tag-kong","tag-panama","tag-ports","tag-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}