This is going to be an interesting case to watch. And dynamic Gordon highlights - locals close to the project favor investment, those more concerned with broader 'national security' interests more skeptical - is key across a broad range of China's FDI projects, in US & Canada 1/ https://twitter.com/GordonHoulden/status/1287878415777841152

. @EvanFeigenbaum had an excellent thread on this point a while ago, and how Chinese investments are often 'locally anchored' in a way that's overlooked in national policy debates. 2/ https://twitter.com/EvanFeigenbaum/status/1153705054127476736

And worth noting this is 180 degrees from the old political economy of many resource extraction projects, where locals suffered the environmental costs (and thus often opposed new investments) but those focused on broader 'national interest' benefited from new energy sources 3/3