Washington used diplomacy, declassified intelligence and other tools to persuade NATO ally Croatia to exclude China from a project at the port of Rijeka
RIJEKA, Croatia—On Rijeka’s waterfront, vast piles of scrap metal stretch for hundreds of yards, the byproduct of an ongoing construction project to renovate the port in the northern Adriatic Sea.
When a deal to remake the port emerged three years ago, it set off alarm bells in Washington: Three Chinese state-owned companies had won a bid for a 50-year deal to build and operate a modern new ship-container terminal at Rijeka, a deepwater port with easy access to central Europe’s markets.
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