Vessels able to fit through the Panama Canal were known to shipbuilders as ... sandy terrain at sea level. The French project became an “abysmal failure”, Julie Greene, author of The ...

would cut the sea journey by half. And how did it secure the rights? Partly by gunboat diplomacy. The US government bought the French canal concession, but Panama was then a province of Colombia ...

Panama denied a claim made by the State Department on Wednesday that the Central American nation had agreed to no longer ...

As Washington threatens and Panama refusing to back down, a struggle to control this key trade, security and immigration ...

Donald Trump has long been fixated on the Panama Canal, a crucial shipping route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. He has railed against rising tolls on American ships (though the increases ...

China’s combination of presence, influence, and compromising relationships within Panama’s elite gives it numerous ...

When US President Donald Trump threatened to "take back" the Panama Canal in his inauguration speech last week, Panamanians were reminded of American imperialism of old. For most of the 20th ...

Panama's president vowed Sunday to end a key development deal with China after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and after complaints from President Donald Trump that the Latin American ...

President Donald Trump reiterated his vow to “take back” the Panama Canal on Sunday, warning of “powerful” US action in an escalating diplomatic dispute with the Central American country ...

suggesting that if China’s presence in Panama constitutes control, then similar arguments could be made about the Suez Canal, the Singapore Strait, the Mediterranean Sea and the English Channel.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told Panama’s president that the country must reduce Chinese influence over the ...