Nicaraguan assembly OKs $40 bln Chinese canal to rival Panama's

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9. The capability is to cut out a trip all the way around Argentina. This is CLEARLY a duplicate

capability. The few miles it may or may not cut out is an insignificant percent off the total trip.

The time to build this would have been before the Panama canal was done as all the studies cited by others here demonstrate the desire.

The world has many problems and very limited resources. This absolutely a wasteful stupid use of those resources - not to factor in even the environmental costs which makes it EVEN worse.

Spend the 40 billion on something else!

A Spaceport near the equator over water for instance would be a useful addition t world infrastructure.
Roads, high speed internet, high speed transit trains net north south. Practically anything would be a better use of resources.

This is obviously a greed and power play motivated project and is NOT a sensible plan.