China May Resign Itself to Losing Panama’s Ports, but Will Fight for Peru

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Beijing can understand that the Panama Canal is of particular interest to the security of the United States, and thus resign itself to losing the ports that it manages in the two mouths of that interoceanic way. But everything indicates that it will stand up to its maximum rival, if Washington presses to throw it also from Peru, a country that is outside the strict "backyard" American. China's discomfort at Donald Trump's reactivation of the old…