Trump says China ‘operates’ the Panama Canal – how deep are Beijing’s ties to the key waterway?
Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama – threatening to “take back” the Panama ...
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Chinese sweat and blood – not soldiers – have left their mark on Panama Canal
when workers from China arrived to build the Panama Railway and later the canal. For over six decades, they shed sweat and blood – and thousands paid with their lives – to build the projects ...
Rubio walks back State Department’s claim of free Panama Canal transit for US government vessels
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has walked back the assertion of the State Department that Panama “has agreed to no longer ...
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Tropic thunder: Why Trump wants the Panama Canal back
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).