{"id":733,"date":"2026-03-19T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50f69f2b37163e5f134068274838df67"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"this-beijing-backed-port-in-peru-helps-explain-trumps-venezuela-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"This Beijing-backed port in Peru helps explain Trump\u2019s Venezuela raid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/this-beijing-backed-port-in-peru-helps-explain-trumps-venezuela-raid.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"_123cb70dac8b2d4e-articleBylineToolsWrapper\" readability=\"2.176724137931\">\n<section class=\"_123cb70dac8b2d4e-articleMetadata\" readability=\"5\">\n<p><span>Updated <\/span><time data-testid=\"ArticleTimestamp-time\"><span>Jan 11, 2026 \u2013 1.59pm<!-- -->,<!-- --> <span class=\"_9763c3afadc077d4-firstPublished\" data-testid=\"ArticleTimestamp-firstPublished\">first published at <!-- -->Jan 8, 2026 \u2013 1.09pm<\/span><\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<p>On the coast of Peru, just north of the capital Lima, a $US1.3 billion ($1.9 billion) ultra-modern deepwater port that cuts shipping times to Shanghai by a third to 23 days passed its first year of operation late in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Chancay Port, majority-owned by a Chinese state-backed shipping giant Cosco and opened to great fanfare by President Xi Jinping in November 2024, has helped boost trade between Peru and Shanghai by 47.1 per cent year-on-year, according to Shanghai Customs.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Jan 11, 2026 \u2013 1.59pm, first published at Jan 8, 2026 \u2013 1.09pm On the coast of Peru, just north of the capital Lima, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}