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Panama Responds to Trump's Canal Claims

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The United States President, Donald Trump, has been advocating for the US to regain control of the Panama Canal, which is utilized by thousands of cargo ships annually. However, this assertion is met with resistance from the current administration of Panama, with President Laurentino Cortizo, also known as Mulino, asserting that the canal remains under Panamanian ownership. Meanwhile, China has explicitly stated that it does not interfere with the operations of the canal. This statement comes as a response to Trump's claims that China effectively controls the canal through its increasing presence in the surrounding area.

  1. CN
    Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    1. China does not participate in the management and operation of the canal and has never interfered in the affairs of the canal.
  2. PA
    José Raúl Mulino
    1. One cannot skip over public international law to impose criteria.
    2. They're not making the decisions on who gets to go through the canal or not, they're not making the decisions on who gets charged, what to go through the canal? They don't own the canal. They don't own the ports.
  3. PA
    Ricaurte Vasquez Moralez
    Panama Canal Authority
    1. There are no Chinese soldiers in the canal, for the love of God.
    2. The accusations that China is running the canal are unfounded.
  4. US
    Donald Trump
    Republican Party
    1. We didn't give it to China, we gave it to Panama. And we're taking it back.
  5. DE
    Benjamin Creutzfeldt
    University of Leipzig
    1. It's a clever move by Panama's authorities because they know that Hutchison Ports will comply and that the audit will most likely not reveal anything suspicious.
  6. ES
    Rodrigo Martin
    University of Salamanca
    1. If Trump starts to threaten Panama's security, maybe Panama will shift its support to China because Beijing is not a threat.
  7. SE
    Tabita Rosendal
    Lund University
    1. They have interests in 53 ports worldwide and more than 24 countries.
    2. It's one of the world's leading port investors, with massive portfolios.
    3. It's a gateway to the continent for China, both economically and diplomatically.
    4. There is not much concrete evidence that China is using them for surveillance, but the question of the risk to national security of this type of technology is certainly a concern for many countries.
  8. US
    Ryan Berg
    Center for Strategic and International Studies
    1. That kind of information regarding cargo would be very useful in the event of a supply chain war.
    2. There is an increasing geopolitical tension of economic nature between the US and China.

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sources

  1. 1.DW News
  2. 2.Al Jazeera
  3. 3.Le Monde
  4. 4.BBC
  5. 5.The Times of India
  6. 6.ABC News (Australia)
  7. 7.The Times
  8. 8.France 24
  9. 9.The Guardian
  10. 10.Agence France-Presse
  11. 11.Financial Times
  12. 12.La Tribune

perspectives

  1. 1.US Foreign Policy
  2. 2.US under Donald Trump
  3. 3.Chinese Foreign Policy
  4. 4.US-China Relations
  5. 5.Shipping industry

countries

  1. 1.CanadaCA
  2. 2.SwitzerlandCH
  3. 3.ChinaCN
  4. 4.ColombiaCO
  5. 5.Costa RicaCR
  6. 6.CubaCU
  7. 7.DenmarkDK
  8. 8.Dominican RepublicDO
  9. 9.SpainES
  10. 10.FranceFR
  11. 11.United KingdomGB
  12. 12.GreenlandGL

organizations

  1. 1.CK Hutchison Holdings
  2. 2.Panama Canal AuthorityPA
  3. 3.United Nations
  4. 4.World Economic Forum
  5. 5.Canal+
  6. 6.University at Buffalo
  7. 7.UN Security Council
  8. 8.Atlantic CouncilUS
  9. 9.Center for Strategic and International StudiesUS
  10. 10.Chinese Communist PartyCN
  11. 11.Confucius Institutes
  12. 12.Lund University

persons

  1. 1.Donald TrumpUS
  2. 2.José Raúl MulinoPA
  3. 3.Li Ka-Shing
  4. 4.Jimmy CarterUS
  5. 5.Carla Martinez MachainUS
  6. 6.Omar Torrijos
  7. 7.António GuterresPT
  8. 8.Ilya Espino De Marotta
  9. 9.Jaime Troyano
  10. 10.Manuel Noriega
  11. 11.Mao NingCN
  12. 12.Stephen WertheimUS

technicals

  1. 1.Panama Canal
  2. 2.Pacific Ocean
  3. 3.Torrijos-Carter Treaties
  4. 4.Article 5 of the NATO Treaty
  5. 5.Caribbean Sea
  6. 6.Charter of the United Nations
  7. 7.Zonians
  8. 8.Gulf of America
  9. 9.Gulf of Mexico
  10. 10.Suez Canal
  11. 11.Article 2
  12. 12.Atlantic Ocean
Panama Responds to Trump's Canal Claims