Panama has officially informed Beijing of its decision to withdraw from China’s massive infrastructure and investment project, the Belt and Road Initiative, the country’s leader announced on Thursday. Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said he had instructed diplomats at the Central American country’s embassy in Beijing to submit the required 90-day notice of withdrawal from…
Panama formally pulled out of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure programme, President Jose Raul Mulino announced on Thursday, in a development that comes amid increasing pressures by United States President Donald Trump’s administration to curtail the growing Chinese influence in the Panama Canal. The decision comes amid mounting pressure from the US to reduce Beijing’s…
STATE DEPARTMENT — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited El Salvador on Monday to press the country to stem the flow of illegal migration and address other strategic issues. His visit comes amid the restructuring of a U.S. agency overseeing foreign aid, which has sparked a showdown between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump’s…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday threatened action against Panama without immediate changes to reduce Chinese influence on the canal, but the country’s leader insisted he was not afraid of a US invasion and offered talks. On his first trip overseas as the top US diplomat, Rubio took a guided tour of the…
US President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony and his activities on day one were covered extensively by Chinese state media, as commentaries called for a responsible handling of ties. Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily offered spot news on the ceremony and some of the executive orders signed by Trump on his first day back at the…
Da Wei is director of Tsinghua University’s Centre for International Security and Strategy in Beijing. His research focuses on China-US relations and US security and foreign policy. In this interview, he discusses US President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech and first day back in the White House. I’d like to start by asking about US President…
China got only one mention in US President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday, but the comment was threatening – especially to a country much closer to America. Suggesting that China’s operations in the Panama Canal constituted a degree of ownership of the Central American waterway, Trump asserted that Panama – the country it runs…
Donald Trump on Monday took oath as the 47th President of the United States and said that the country will take back the Panama canal, alleging that China had gained control of the waterway.“China is operating the Panama Canal, we didn’t c, we gave it to Panama and we are taking it back,” said Trump…
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Washington: Outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday dismissed as bluster President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to seize the Panama Canal, instead anticipating a more traditional strategy of diversifying supply chains. “On the Panama Canal, we have a treaty, we have a settled policy of many years, and that’s not going to change,” Blinken…