{"id":136630,"date":"2025-09-16T20:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136630"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:08:27","slug":"announcing-canal-revamp-panama-dodges-questions-about-chinese-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136630","title":{"rendered":"Announcing canal revamp, Panama dodges questions about Chinese ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostPanamanian authorities on Tuesday announced an US$8.5 billion plan to modernise and expand the Panama Canal over the next decade, while sidestepping questions on whether Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison or others seen as having links to China could join future projects amid US concerns about Beijing\u2019s influence over the waterway.<br \/>\nHutchison Ports, a unit of CK Hutchison, has managed terminals in Balboa and Colon \u2013 on opposite ends of the trade channel \u2013 since the 1990s. Its role has drawn sharp&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3325783\/announcing-canal-revamp-panama-dodges-questions-about-chinese-ownership?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostPanamanian authorities on Tuesday announced an US$8.5 billion plan to modernise and expand the Panama Canal over the next decade, while sidestepping questions on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}