Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang discusses China's influence in Latin America and tensions between them and the United States over the Panama Canal.

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 4 2025 (IPS) - US President Donald Trump’s ominous threat to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland sets the stage for a new political battle with the United Nations. But judging ...

It sits about 10 miles west of the edge of Lake Gatún, the enormous freshwater reservoir that feeds the mighty Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering. This waterway, which slices 50 miles across the isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is an artery of world trade ...

Perhaps the recent fuss over the Panama Canal will deliver one worthy result: U.S. Navy ships won’t have to pay a fee to move through the isthmus that divides two oceans. If that’s the outcome ...

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Rubio will visit the Panama Canal, according to a U.S. official, and will meet with President José Raúl Mulino on Sunday. Mulino rules out opening negotiations and has already complained to the UN ...

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President Donald Trump’s concerns about Chinese influence on the Panama Canal have put the 51-mile trade artery under the spotlight in recent months. Amid Washington’s fears that any potential ...

Our aggressive President Donald J. Trump has threatened to take back the Panama Canal. Bush was a moderate and conservative ...

“China is running the Panama Canal. It was not given to China ... Most of that money (64.2%) went to UN agencies, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, and the World Bank ...