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Georgia’s Black Sea Coast Catches U.S. Attention as PRC Port Pact Stalls - Jamestown Skip to content China Brief Eurasia Daily Monitor Terrorism Monitor Subscribe Account Log out --> Donate About Us Who We Are Our Team History Careers Funding Publications China Brief Notes China Brief Eurasia Daily Monitor Terrorism Monitor Militant Leadership Monitor Jamestown Perspectives Projects Black Sea Commentaries Guardians of the Belt New Versus Old Topics Military & Security Foreign Policy Information Warfare Economics & Energy Politics & Society Technology Media Foundation Updates Mentions Books Events Technology Politics & Society Economics & Energy Information Warfare Foreign Policy Military & Security Georgia’s Black Sea Coast Catches U.S. Attention as PRC Port Pact Stalls Economics

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Georgia’s Black Sea Coast Catches U.S. Attention as PRC Port Pact Stalls - Jamestown Skip to content China Brief Eurasia Daily Monitor Terrorism Monitor Subscribe Account Log out --> Donate About Us Who We Are Our Team History Careers Funding Publications China Brief Notes China Brief Eurasia Daily Monitor Terrorism Monitor Militant Leadership Monitor Jamestown Perspectives Projects Black Sea Commentaries Guardians of the Belt New Versus Old Topics Military & Security Foreign Policy Information Warfare Economics & Energy Politics & Society Technology Media Foundation Updates Mentions Books Events Technology Politics & Society Economics & Energy Information Warfare Foreign Policy Military & Security Georgia’s Black Sea Coast Catches U.S. Attention as PRC Port Pact Stalls Economics & Energy Publication Eurasia Daily Monitor Georgia 05.20.2026 Nicholas Chkhaidze Top Stories Russian Black Sea Fleet Intrudes Bulgarian Waters, Harasses Turkish Grain Freighter Foreign Policy Russia’s Combat Losses in Ukraine Deduced From Rosstat’s ‘Unassigned Deaths’ Category Military & Security Russia Exhausts Soviet-Era Arms Storage Bases Military & Security Georgia’s Black Sea Coast Catches U.S. Attention as PRC Port Pact Stalls Executive Summary: U.S. State Department Official Peter Andreoli visited Georgia and its Anaklia Deep Sea Port on March 27, three days before U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze held their first phone call. The consortium led by China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) was chosen as Anaklia’s developer in 2024, but the deal has not been finalized. Georgia also cut the port’s budget by almost two-thirds, leaving it in an ambiguous financial and legal position. Concern over the growing influence of the People’s Republic of China in the South Caucasus, particularly in Georgia, has raised questions about whether Georgia will change Anaklia’s trajectory amid cooperation with Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran. On March 27, Peter Andreoli, a U.S. State Department official, traveled to Georgia and its Black Sea coast to visit Anaklia’s deep-sea port, as well as the nearby port of Poti. Three days later, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held his first phone call with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, which marked the highest-level bilateral engagement since Washington suspended the U.S.–Georgia strategic partnership in November 2024 as a result of Georgian Dream’s authoritarian, anti-Western turn ( U.S. State Department ; Civil.ge , March 30; Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , April 11). In light of recent developments and renewed regional dynamics in the South Caucasus, Anaklia has regained its status and re-emerged as a topic within U.S.–Georgia relations. Its fate is legally and financially unresolved. A Chinese state-owned consortium sanctioned by the U.S. government has been named the developer of this port for the past two years, but the deal has not bee

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