{"id":69870,"date":"2025-03-05T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/04\/panama-canal-ports-sale-blackrock"},"modified":"2025-03-05T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:00:50","slug":"hong-kong-firm-to-sell-stake-in-panama-ports-amid-trump-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69870","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong firm to sell stake in Panama ports amid Trump pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deal with US finance giant BlackRock, valued at almost $23bn, comes amid push to curb perceived China influence<\/p>\n<p>CK Hutchison Holdings, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a>-based logistics giant, announced plans to sell a majority stake in a business that controls ports in Panama to investors including the US financial giant BlackRock in a deal worth almost $23bn.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of a 90% interest in Panama Ports Company, which holds the contract to run the ports of Balboa and Crist\u00f3bal until 2047, is part of a wider deal for Hutchison Port\u2019s global business. The deal comes at a time Donald Trump has piled on pressure to end what he sees as China\u2019s influence and control over the Panama canal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/04\/panama-canal-ports-sale-blackrock\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal with US finance giant BlackRock, valued at almost $23bn, comes amid push to curb perceived China influenceCK Hutchison Holdings, the Hong Kong-based logistics giant, announced plans to sell a majority stake in a business that controls ports in Pan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,6,50,48,557,1443,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-business","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-international-trade","category-panama","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69871,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870\/revisions\/69871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}