President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

To protect its interests in Panama without destabilizing the region, the United States must approach this situation with ...

Panama is in danger of becoming a case study of how an American hard-power win could become a soft-power loss. America did ...

On a recent on-site report for NBC News from The Republic of Panama, correspondent Andrea Mitchell stated that the Panama Canal Treaty, signed by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar ...

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

WASHINGTON/SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday welcomed Panama's decision to let its ...

He added: "We didn't give it to China, we gave it to Panama and we ... in the 1850s, a railway was built across the isthmus). The US secured the rights to build a canal – which, when completed ...

the US built a railway. In 1869, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had delivered the Suez Canal through Egypt, agreed to replicate the feat in 1881 in Panama (then a province of Colombia).

Donald Trump stokes fears about Beijing’s influence in Panama, but thousands of Chinese gave their lives to build canal and railway.

Chinese Ambassador to Panama Xu Xueyuan published an article in Spanish titled "US, please learn to respect" in Panama's newspaper La Estrella de Panamá. Photo: Wechat account of ...