China produces a vast number of STEM graduates, but it hasn’t been known for innovation. Cultural and political factors may ...

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 ...

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

Panama City, Panama - January 27, 2025 China does not control the Panama Canal, nor does it charge more tolls to the United States, says its former administrator, Jorge Quijano, in an interview ...

But his gripe is more with U.S. rival China ... began building the canal in 1904, the year after Panama gained independence from Colombia with U.S. support. The project was completed in 1914 ...

PANAMA CITY: US President Donald Trump's threat to seize the Panama Canal ... China's footprint has expanded greatly in Panama as in the rest of Latin America, mainly through infrastructure projects.

Yet Trump, in his inaugural address Monday, complained that "China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China, we gave it to Panama." "There are reasonable concerns related to ...

Here's what we know: Who owns the canal ... Since then, China's footprint has expanded greatly in Panama as in the rest of Latin America, mainly through infrastructure projects.