Inside the Chinese mega-port built in America’s backyard The £2.6bn Chancay facility is part of the Belt and Road Initiative – Xi Jinping’s controversial programme of global infrastructure projects
in Chancay, Peru Related Topics P The new £2.6 billion deepwater mega-port is impacting local homeowners Miriam Arce shudders as she talks about the daily explosions just yards away that have rocked her home beside the South Pacific for the last two years. “It’s like an earthquake. It damages your psychological and physical health,” says the 54-year-old artist, whose modest house overlooks the site of a vast new port being built by Chinese state-owned company Cosco. “It’s been twice a day since 2022. Other people feel the explosions far worse than me. What…Read more …