Were China able to somehow turn ports into naval bases, it might struggle to keep control of a series of Gibraltars so far from home.
Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr who eventually left its acquirer Yahoo and started TinySpeck (and an ill-fated multiplayer game called Glitch), last year decided to take a different turn, porting his expertise in consumer services to tackle the enterprise market.
Police officers patrolling by foot, car and helicopter have turned Port Richmond Avenue, a busy commercial strip on Staten Island, into something like an armed encampment.
A thin sheet of polished steel held 6m aloft on slender columns, Foster's sunshade (or rain shelter) turns port life upside down – from buskers to passing pedestrians, from living statues to gnarled fishermen selling their latest catch.
Whereas in the past, the battle against pirate fishing has been fought predominantly on the waves, requiring huge resources, manpower, and time to track mostly elusive pirate fishers, this new rule turns ports into the first line of defence.
"A lot of elements combined, so that when somebody said, quite simply, 'The Bush administration is turning ports over to a Middle Eastern government,' you got a lot of resonance".
Yamato started a sharp turn to port but three torpedoes ripped into her port side amidships, jamming her auxiliary rudder in position hard port.
— turn on port forwarding so that T.C.P./I.P. traffic from ports 49177 and 57123 go to the box's I.P. address.
In turn, Port Chester collects Rye's green waste at a discount and takes it to Yonkers.
Still, the ex-slaves and their new Union overseers helped turn Port Royal into a profitable source of cotton, though it was nowhere near as productive as in the antebellum era.
