“Control of strategic chokepoints like the Panama Canal is probably among China’s goals,” said Will Freeman, Fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to “demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and ...

Some U.S. lawmakers and officials are touting a nearly half-century-old treaty between the United States and Panama to ...

Marco Rubio’s trip should focus on countering Chinese investment in Latin America and helping Panama stem illegal migration. Trump Is a Man With a Panama Canal ... mile land bridge that ...

and a $2 billion contract for a Chinese consortium to build a fourth bridge over the canal. Loading “Panama is a key gateway for influence in South America more broadly,” says Parker.

China has been working to build ties and influence in Panama for years, part of its broader ambition to expand its footprint in Latin America ... a fourth bridge over the Panama Canal.

“A man, a plan, a canal — Panama,” so the famous palindrome ... Trump is getting solid backing from Republicans on the Hill. “America is sleepwalking into a carefully laid Chinese trap.

Constructed by the United States mainly with Afro-Caribbean labor and opened in 1914, the canal was administered by America ... bridge over it. "He (Trump) is definitely trying to frighten Panama ...

"Chinese companies are right now building a bridge across the canal at a slow pace so as ... and influence of China throughout the Americas and in Panama specifically." Cruz also said during ...