The Panama Canal crisis isn’t over yet, and it may be only the first stage of a wider conflict about whether the U.S. can contain China’s control of the world’s commercial maritime logistics network.

The canal’s two biggest ports are operated by a Hong Kong company with global reach. The Trump administration sees a Chinese ...

The Trump administration is taking proactive measures to regain control over the Panama Canal and reduce Chinese influence at ...

Panama - January 26, 2025 Twenty-five years after its return to Panama, the Panama Canal, an artificial waterway connecting ...

As this is written, I have just completed an extensive visit to the Panama Canal and Central America ... China has slowly expanded its power in Panama by opening its first Confucius cultural ...

On Christmas Day, Trump posted on social media that the "wonderful soldiers of China" were "lovingly, but illegally, ...

Something very powerful is going to happen,” Trump warned from Washington, casting a shadow over Rubio’s diplomatic mission ...

Panama's president says the State Department's claim of an agreement granting U.S. warships free canal passage was "based on ...

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

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told Panama’s president that the country must reduce Chinese influence over the Panama Canal area or face potential retaliation from the Trump administration.

In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

Panama Canal workers walk over the gates of the Miraflores locks. - Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images Completed in 1914, the canal’s planned grand opening ceremony was canceled because of the ...