Following Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the US needs to “ take back ” the Panama canal from Chinese control, the US ...

The trip was as much about Central America as it was about China as the Trump administration aims to reclaim American ...

Trump’s punishment of allies and coddling of adversaries could end up isolating the United States. The Trump administration’s ...

President Donald Trump is a man with a plan for the canal, namely to force Panama to limit China’s influence on the vital 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific or risk the United ...

Feb. 6, 2025 Secretary of State Marco Rubio made his first foreign trip in office to Central America with the Panama Canal ...

China on Friday lashed out at what it called U.S. ''coercion'' after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with Beijing following Washington's threat to take back the Panama Canal.

In response to pressure from the Trump administration, Panama has withdrawn from China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Eric Olander, co-founder of the China-Global South Project, says the U.S. president ...

Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama – threatening to “take back” the Panama ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his ...

Donald Trump’s new trade war is further blurring the lines between Hong Kong and Beijing, threatening to erode the city’s ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday denied the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a ...