{"id":123932,"date":"2026-07-07T05:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/123932\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:19:17","slug":"deal-between-danish-nato-port-and-chinese-peer-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/123932\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal between Danish NATO port and Chinese peer draws criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\/defense\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">State-owned Ningbo Zhoushan in tie-up with Esbjerg Port, a EU wind power hub<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/5.png\" alt=\"2026 esbjerg\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Denmark&#8217;s Esbjerg Port was designated a NATO port in 2022 and also is recognized as a wind energy hub for the European Union. (Screenshot from Port of Esbjerg&#8217;s website)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HAMBURG, Germany &#8212; A cooperation deal between a NATO port in Denmark and Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Group has raised concerns about Chinese influence over the European Union&#8217;s strategic hubs, underscoring the clash between the bloc&#8217;s push for rapid green-energy expansion and its ability to protect critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense State-owned Ningbo Zhoushan in tie-up with Esbjerg Port, a EU wind power hub Denmark&#8217;s Esbjerg Port was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[16915,60866,5214,27,15293,26,40907,74,60865,6920],"class_list":["post-123932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-chinese","tag-criticism","tag-danish","tag-danmark","tag-deal","tag-denmark","tag-draws","tag-nato","tag-peer","tag-port"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116877011759748921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}