The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman remains in the eastern Mediterranean Sea as its crew assesses damage from a ...

Panama became the first Latin American country to officially join China's Belt and Road Initiative. It leaves at a time Trump ...

There’s no evidence that China controls the canal, which is run by an independent authority appointed by Panama’s government. Beijing has repeatedly denied that it has interfered in canal operations.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his heart: immigration, counternarcotics and curbing Chinese influence in the ...

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

The Panama Canal has become a major – and unexpected – focal point of President Donald Trump’s second administration. He has repeatedly stated his intention to reclaim control over the century-old ...

Trump has risked sparking diplomatic crises and economic turmoil with his threats of tariffs and talk of purchasing foreign ...

Panama's José Raúl Mulino announced that his country would not renew its agreement with China's Belt and Road Initiative ...

“All the while, the Chinese Communist Party uses diplomatic and economic leverage — such as at the Panama Canal — to oppose the U.S. and turn sovereign nations into vassal states.

As tensions over the Panama Canal ratcheted up last month ... Panamanian government auditors descended on two ports, located at each end of the canal, operated by a subsidiary of Hong Kong ...

Rubio has taken a more measured approach in discussing the Panama Canal while also underscoring ... it comes to companies controlled by Beijing located on each end of it. "If the government ...

His boss, President Trump, says Panama should give the Panama Canal back to the U.S. But Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said this week that’s “impossible,” and a U.S. military ...