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We gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn’t give it to China. They’ve abused that gift,
Trump said at an early January press conference at Mar-a-Lago Trump has made a preliminary determination that the current position of influence and control of the Chinese Communist Party over the Panama Canal area is a threat to the canal,
said US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce We'll study the possibility of terminating it early,
Secretary Rubio made clear that this status quo is unacceptable and that absent immediate changes, it would require the United States to take measures necessary to protect its rights under the treaty,
the State Department said in a summary of the meeting The president’s been pretty clear he wants to administer the canal again,
I don't feel that there is any real threat at this time against the treaty, its validity, or much less of the use of military force to seize the canal,
Mulino told reporters afterward, referring to the treaty that handed over the canal at the end of 1999. To the imperial messenger, ... we reiterate that there is absolutely nothing here for Trump. Panama is a free and sovereign nation."
union leader Saul Mendez said of Rubio Rubio, get out of Panama!"
around 200 demonstrators chanted as the former senator met Mulino Sovereignty over the canal is not in question,
We firmly reject the claims of the United States to turn Panama into a protectorate and colony,
They’ve already offered to do many things, ... but we think it’s appropriate that we take it back.”
It’s no accident that my first trip abroad as secretary of state will keep me in the hemisphere,
he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column on Friday We are going to address that topic,
In some ways, Trump is pushing on an open door,
said Ryan Berg, director of the Americas programme at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, DC-based think tank It’s impossible, I can’t negotiate,
Marco Rubio is going over to talk to the gentleman that’s in charge,
There’s been a lot of heavy rhetoric and it will be up [to] Rubio to clarify it,
We cannot allow any foreign power — particularly China — to hold that kind of potential control over it that they do,
I cannot negotiate, much less open a process of negotiations on the canal,
Mulino said Thursday, saying
