There long have been concerns about foreigners, especially governments, owning controlling interests in American trade and transportation facilities such as airports and container ports.
The Obama administration, nevertheless, announced with fanfare in 2012 its 40-year agreement with the Orient Overseas Container Line, a division of the COSCO Shipping Holdings Co. of China, to run the port of Long Beach.
However, government watchdog Judicial Watch said Wednesday the Trump administration reversing the deal with little notice.
Judicial Watch found only one local newspaper report of the Trump administration stepping in and requiring COSCO to sell its rights to the container terminal.
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