Trump visited his Panama victory. Then China entered. star-news.press/wp

Hong Kong – A huge offer that President Donald Trump in his campaign “returned” the Panama Channel from China could be on the rocks in the middle of the return in Beijing.

Sales of $ 23 billion involving two ports managed by the CK Hutchison, a private company based in the Chinese area of ​​Hong Kong, in the cozletium led by the American Investment Company Blackrock was originally signed last week.

But the agreement between the two is delayed under the pressure from China, whose market regulator has launched an overview of the contract as a state newspaper that attacked it as understood Chinese national interests.

NBC news views for sale and what it can mean politically and economically for the United States and China, the two largest economies in the world.

Why is it important?

During the Trump inaugural speech in January, he He claimed without giving evidence that China controlled the 50-mile channel and vowed that the United States would return the waterway, which said it was “vitally” national security. The Panama Government has given the canal built in the United States since they were given up to the Central American country in 1999. years.

Trump did not exclude military action and focused the Department of Defense to make plans to send multiple troops in Panama to “regain” the channel, through which 40% of US trade passes.

Panama denies Trump’s accusations of channel neutrality, which is in her Constitution of the Enstrina. But in an attempt to release pressure from Washington, the country has launched the Audit of the company CK Hutchison Panama (PPC), which has been operating two ports along the canal, Balboa on the Pacific side and Cristóba on the Atlantic side since 1997.

On Monday, General Comptroller said that the contract was excessively favorable for Hutchison PPC, cost $ 1.3 billion in revenue, and that the authorities submitted a lawsuit included in its renewal.

The findings come as CK Hutchison negotiates the sale in Blackrock, which includes 90% interest in two ports for the panama channel and 80% control interest in 43 other ports outside Hong Kong and China. When the deal was Announced 4. MarchCompanies said that the definite documentation for the business channel, Panama will be signed by 2. April.

Trump quickly declared victory. “In order to improve our national security, my administration will take on the Panama channel, and we have already started working,” he said to the address of the Congress last month, stating the proposed contract.

China’s ‘longtime’ jurisdiction

The sale of two Chinese ports from Chinese is more than just Panama, said Christopher Hernandez-Roy, a senior associate and deputy director of Americas programs in the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Rington Research.

“It is a great victory to the efforts of the Trump Administration to withdraw China in the Western Hemisphere,” he said, adding that something that China “wouldn’t want to happen.”

Although Htcthison, owned by a billionaire Lee Ka-Shing, is a private company based in Hong Kong, a half-dry territory, Beijing quickly signaled their dissatisfaction with the contract.

China strongly opposes the use of economic coercion and harassment to the harm to the legitimate rights and interests of other countries, “said the spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry of Guo Jiakun last week.

Chinese government offices in Hong Kong have reliled articles from pro-Beijing newspapers who criticized sale as undermining Chinese national interest. The Beying Market Regulator also said that the sale was subject to antitrust examination “for the protection of fair competition and protective public interests.”

The original signing date came last week last week.