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«Earlier this month, the Israeli port of Haifa, one of the largest maritime transport hubs in the Mediterranean, was handed over to the Chinese state Shanghai International Ports Group to operate for the next 25 years.
Another huge Chinese shipping company, Cosco Shipping, is ready to expand its footprint in Europe by taking a stake in the port of Hamburg.
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If Cosco succeeds, it will be the company’s eighth port investment in Europe.
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The Chinese government does not have an official platform to summarize the overall data on China’s overseas port projects, but publicly available data show that Beijing now has a foothold in at least 100 ports in 63 countries.
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In a recent opinion piece published by the Daily Mail, former British Secretary of Defense and International Trade Liam Fox and former US National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane noted that China now owns 96 ports worldwide. Some of this is at the heart of maritime trade, “strategic domination of Beijing without the deployment of single troops, ships or weapons.”
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Beijing controls or makes large investments in 15 of the top 15 ports in the world in terms of container volume.»

https://nationworldnews.com/chinas-global-network-of-shipping-ports-reveals-beijings-strategy/