The Australian government announced Friday it has decided not to cancel a Chinese company’s 99-year lease on strategically important Darwin Port despite U.S. concerns that the foreign control could be used to spy on its military forces.
“The only way to avoid this problem is not to have the lease in the first place and they should bite the bullet and get rid of it,” James added. Landbridge far outbid 32 other potential private investors with a 506 million Australian dollar offer for the aging infrastructure, the provincial government based in Darwin said at the time. A month after the deal was announced, then U.S.
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