Trump says China “operates” the Panama Canal: how far do Beijing's ties to this key waterway go?

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China is operating the Panama Canal and we did not give it to China, we gave it to Panama, and we will recover it." The warning proclaimed by Donald Trump during his inauguration speech was to represent the beginning of an imperial presidency destined to redouble, on this front as in so many others, geopolitical hostility. Also a wake-up call to the regime's domination over ports around the world, now that security and globalization have become …

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Rich Lowry: Trump’s Panama win

The Panamanian political leadership presumably hasn't been sleeping so well the past several weeks. After the election, Trump began banging the drum about Panama's mismanagement of the canal. Then, in a truly extraordinary line in his inaugural address that didn't get much attention given the rush of other events, he pledged to take it back.

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DECRYPTAGE - To calm the U.S. President's ardour for this strategic seaway, the state of Central America has withdrawn from the "silk roads", causing China's anger.

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Who Operates Panama Canal? Amid Trump's Threats, A Look At China's Ties To Key Waterway

China has slammed the United States for  "smearing and sabotaging" its Belt and Road Initiative in Panama through "pressure and coercion" after the Latin American country pulled out of the Chinese infrastructure program, following pressure from US President Donald Trump to reduce Beijing's influence in the Panama Canal.  Beijing also condemned a "Cold War mentality" by the United States in Latin America, saying it had raised a complaint over com…

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By Simone McCarthy, CNN Donald Trump began his second term as president by increasing pressure on Panama, threatening to “recover” the Panama Canal and accusing the country of ceding control of the critical waterway to a rival of the United States: China. “Above all else, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama and we're getting it back,” Trump said in his inauguration speech last month. There is…

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Is the Panama Canal really ‘operated’ by China as Trump claims?

Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama – threatening to “take back” the Panama Canal and accusing the country of ceding control of the strategically critical waterway to a US rival: China.