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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday expressed alarm at China's influence on the Panama Canal, which President Donald Trump has vowed the United States would take back. "Chinese ...
"China is operating the Panama Canal and we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama and we're taking it back," he said. The 51-mile (82km) Panama Canal cuts across the Central American ...
The head of the Federal Maritime Commission will tell a U.S. Senate committee that the United States has options to address the growing presence of China and Chinese firms in Panama. President ...
Tensions over the canal deteriorated again in the late 1980s under the rule of Manuel Noriega, who was removed from power after the US invaded Panama as part of the “war on drugs.” Modern troubles
China doesn’t control the Panama Canal, but the narrative grows murkier. Since 1997, CK Hutchison Holdings, a Hong Kong-based firm, has managed key ports at the canal’s Caribbean and Pacific ...
Trump argues that Panama has broken a pledge of neutrality made when the United States transferred the canal to Panama in 1999, falsely claiming that China is now operating it. The canal is ...
Xi spent 2 days per country. Xi left Panama on December 3 and over a dozen agreements between China and Panama were signed, and a feasibility study about the David–Panama railway was received by Panamanian president Juan Carlos Varela from Xi Jinping. China expects the railway to extend to all of Central America, connecting with the Mexican ...
The bill, named the Panama Canal Repurchase Act, was introduced by Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., a member of the Select Committee on China and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.