Since returning to office, President Trump has made repeated claims that China operates the Panama Canal and threatened to take it back from the Panama Canal Authority, which has controlled it since 1999.
Panama’s president has said that he instructed the country’s foreign minister to not discuss the U.S. government’s allegations of Chinese interference in the operations of the Panama Canal with ... in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter.
The relationship between the US and Panama goes back to the birth of the nation itself. Starting with Panama’s separation from Colombia in 1903 to the construction and control of the canal, the US played a central role in shaping Panama’s history. Today, the US is the main user of the canal, followed by China and Japan.
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