Does China have a presence in the Panama Canal? The Trump administration’s key concern is found at either end of the waterway, where two of the five ports that service the canal are operated by ...

Does China have a presence in the Panama Canal? The Trump administration’s key concern is found at either end of the waterway, where two of the five ports that service the canal are operated by ...

President Trump is wrong when he says China controls the Panama Canal. But the U.S. rival does have influence there, and the administration is moving to counter it.

On Dec. 31, 1999, the U.S. relinquished control of the canal to Panama under a treaty negotiated by President Jimmy Carter and ratified by the Senate in 1978 in what Trump has called “a terrible ...

“China is running the Panama Canal,” Trump said, adding that it “makes a lot of money from one of the most profitable structures ever built, because you have ships lined up back to Florida, ...

The Panama Canal Authority chief dismissed President-elect Trump’s claims that China is controlling the trade route and criticized his comments about fees. Ricaurte Vásquez Morales told The ...

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." "China does not operate or control the ...

On the Panama Canal, Mr. Trump said in his March 4 address, "To further enhance our national security, ... It's being operated by China. China! And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama.

Does China have a presence in the Panama Canal? The Trump administration’s key concern is found at either end of the waterway, where two of the five ports that service the canal are operated by ...