TRUMP RIDS LONG BEACH OF CHINESE AGENTS

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Loading Naval Munitions At Seal Beach (Photo U.S. Navy)

                                                                    

The Obama administration signed off on a long term (40 years) deal to let a Chinese Communist ( state owned) company control the second busiest container port in U.S. The Trump administration ordered  a national security review and the lease was found to be detrimental to national security. The Obama agreement placed a Chinese state owned merchant marine operation next door to a major naval weapons station sharing common access by water. What on Earth was Obama thinking. Trump cleared the dragon's lair on our door step out. 

 The Obama administration made a long term deal with Chinese state owned COSCO Shipping Holdings  CO. In a Trump Administration victory completely ignored by the MSM COSCO is being made to sell their facility to an entity less threatening to the United States..This decision to kick the Communists Chinese out of a piece of U.S geography that borders a major naval weapons station and shares a common navigation channel came after an extensive national security review and legal search for a way to break the Obama era contract . The victory over the already landed on our shores dragon required extensive study and a very detailed approach. The victory comes after hard grinding work and an act of courage on the part of the President. China and the MSM would not be pleased and they weren't but the Democrats reasoned that they would reveal themselves as communists if they publicly fought the President over this one. Instead the MSM simply chose to ignore the event. 

The ship in the foreground is moored at Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station. Note the breakwaters leading out to the Pacific. for decades the Navy's munitions operations had to share this narrow channel with recreational boaters. Then during the Obama Administration the U. S. Navy also had to share the channel with a Chinese shipping company. Chinese merchant shipping is controlled by the Chinese Navy to a level unknown in this country since we last had war time naval control of shipping during WW II.. The Chinese Navy has publicly stated its intention to drive the US Navy "back to Pearl Harbor". Thus eliminating our rights of innocent passage through the South China Sea and cutting off our allies in the region from any naval assistance from America. (photo Public Domain (US Navy )

The Obama administration signed the agreement in 2012. Obama gave China control of America’s second-largest container port. One of the Trump administration’s first big moves was to get COMMUNIST COSCO out of the Port of Long Beach. After a national security review and federal intervention, the Long Beach terminal business which handles millions of containers annually,is finally being sold to an Australian company called Macquarie Infrastructure Partners.  Essentially that kills the Dragon's decades-long contract with the Obama administration .Nice getting such a large alligator out of the swamp in such close proximity to people upon which it had already declared its intention of eating them, 

Removing Chinese Communists from this important port is a tremendous feat. It is also  a huge victory for U.S. national security. You’ve never heard of it because the media, has ignored this important achievement. The only coverage of the finalized transfer is found in Long Beach’s local newspaper.  The Long Beach paper published a brief article omitting important background information. What was omitted?  The Trump administration’s work to take back the terminal from the Dragon. The paper covered the story as if it was a regular business transaction. According to the local paper, the only media coverage of this event; it would appear that  “a Chinese state-owned company, reached a deal to sell the terminal, one of the busiest in the port, for $1.78 billion.” The piece also quotes the Port of Long Beach’s deputy executive director saying that the transaction process was intricate and involved one of “our most valuable port assets.” Buried at the bottom of the article is a sentence mentioning that the U.S. government, which regulates mergers for anti trust and security reasons had required COSCO to sell its rights to the terminal complex.  In 2012 The Obama Administration gave China control of America’s second-largest container port. One of the Trump administration’s first swamp drainage projects was to get the  Dragon out of the Port of Long Beach. After a national security review and federal intervention, the Long Beach terminal business, which handles millions of containers annually, is finally being sold to an Australian company called Macquarie Infrastructure Partners. That essentially kills China’s decades-long contract with the Obama administration. And from the main stream media? Crickets

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