BlackRock Buying Panama Canal Ports for $22.8 Billion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Under the BlackRock agreement with CK Hutchison, Panama Ports would give 90% interest to BlackRock's new infrastructure arm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and Geneva-based Terminal Investment.
45% : "China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China," Trump said in his inaugural address Jan. 20, noting that former Democrat President Jimmy Carter gave the U.S.-built canal to Panama in a 1977 treaty.

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