I mean, President Trump said he'd rather deal with, with BlackRock, an American company, than a Hong Kong based company. Well, I agree with the president. And in sitting down with President Molino of Panama, They had just received the audit which showed that Hutchinson, the Chinese firm, had hundreds of millions of dollars that they owed. They were going to reveal they had not paid. So this was not a good deal for Panama, whereas the BlackRock deal is more straightforward and an American company. (04:49–04:58)
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