Trump falsely claimed China was controlling the Panama Canal and suggested he could use military force to retake the waterway. The threat rippled through a country still haunted by the events of ...
President-elect Trump’s recent pronouncements on the Panama Canal—and China’s role in the canal’s operations—have brought a renewed focus on the “path between the seas.” Before exploring what might ...
Trump’s canal canard obscures a truth: Panama just wants to run its shipping passage without interference from China or the U.S. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has in recent days repeatedly ...
All of the Panama Canal expansion activity in the early 2000s almost fell flat on its face. It was built on the expectation of ever-increasing container imports coming from China into the U.S. on even ...
Carla Martinez Machain has previously received funding from the Minerva Research Initiative, the Department of Defense, and the Army Research Office. The views expressed here are the authors' only ...
sharply criticised China’s global ambitions during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, singling out Beijing’s involvement in the Panama Canal as a significant threat to US national security.
The U.S. has long invested heavily in Latin America and the Carribean, but China is South America’s biggest trading partner and benefactor. As part of its Belt and Road initiative, it is increasingly ...