BlackRock-led group will buy ports at heart of Panama-Trump tension - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : It bought these ports through a fund managed by Global Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure firm it purchased last year, and with Terminal Investment Ltd., which operates ports served by the world's largest shipping company, Mediterranean Shipping.
58% : In the past several days, executives at BlackRock, including Laurence D. Fink, its CEO, and a board member, Adebayo Ogunlesi, briefed Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and others on the contours of the deal, according to two people involved in the deal.
46% : Trump has frequently said he wants the United States to retake control of the waterway, which it ceded to Panama in 2000.
42% : Trump has also taken aim at the fees that the Panama Canal charges shipping companies each time they pass through.
34% : President Trump has been suggesting, without evidence, that the Chinese are influencing the operation of the canal through the ports owned by CK Hutchison.

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