“Look, the Panama Canal is vital to our country, it’s being operated by China, China. And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama, we didn’t give it to China,” he said in remarks at a press ...

“China is running the Panama Canal,” Trump said, adding that it “makes a lot of money from one of the most profitable structures ever built, because you have ships lined up back to ...

Chang also responded to Trump’s complaint that China is exerting undue influence on the Panama Canal, something that Panama’s own President, José Raúl Mulino, pushed back on in a December ...

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A man holds up a newspaper published on Jan 1, 2000, announcing the handover of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama in 1999, in Panama City on Tuesday. ARIS MARTINEZ / REUTERS PANAMA ...

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Dr. Hogan teaches in the History and Literature program at Harvard University. His research focuses on Central America and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2023, on a research ...

He did, however, try to deflect accusations that China may have too much influence over the waterway. “There are no hands involved in the canal other than Panama’s,” Mulino said.

President-elect Donald Trump has set global nerves on edge with a trifecta of venturous provocations — musing about purchasing Greenland, reclaiming the Panama Canal and annexing Canada, even in ...

Trump then wrote that by the terms of a 1977 treaty, the canal was to be operated by Panama alone and not a foreign power, such as China. He then blasted the fees they’ve been charging ...

Similarly, Chinese foreign ministry also retorted with a blunt response: “The Panama Canal is a great creation of the Panamanian people, and China has always supported their just struggle to maintain ...