BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) - Chinese state media on Saturday criticised Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison's plan to sell its ports near the Panama Canal to a BlackRock-led group, a day after China's market regulator launched a probe into the deal.
Port operations were critical infrastructure and there were significant national interests involved in the transaction, a social media account affiliated with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on Saturday.
"Selling the dock is tantamount to handing a knife to an opponent," the account Yuyuantantian said in a post on Weibo.
(Reporting by Lewis Jackson and Jenny Su in Beijing; editing by William Mallard)
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