One way or the other, we’re going to get it,” President Donald Trump said of Greenland, asserting that the autonomous Danish territory and the Panama Canal were vital to security.

Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he wants to “take back” the Panama Canal but has not offered specifics about how he ...

Economic development scholar Ricardo Hausmann explains the history of the canal, Panama’s investment and development of the ...

The U.S. seizure of the Panama Canal Zone from the sovereign country of Panama would be the equivalent of a tyrant seizing territory within the sovereign country of Ukraine. If the seizure of the ...

The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong-based conglomerate has agreed to sell its stake in two Panama Canal ports to U.S. and Swiss investors ... a semiautonomous Chinese territory, Trump administration ...

Rubio said that the US would be obligated to protect the Panama Canal if it came under attack, adding that he found it “absurd that we would have to pay fees to transit a zone that we are ...

The canal was built and funded by the US in the early 20th century after Panama gained independence from Colombia with Washington's support. It retained control of the canal zone until it handed ...

The U.S. controlled the Canal and the area around it until it signed treaties in 1977 granting Panama control and sovereignty over the canal zone and guaranteeing its permanent neutrality.

Donald Trump has declared that the US will "take back ... were also aimed to uphold Panama’s demand of restoring sovereignty over its territory, guarantee the canal’s neutrality, and cement ...