TRUMP WAS RIGHT AGAIN. PANAMA HAD SIGNED A BELT AND ROAD DEAL WITH CHINA.
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

THIS GOES BACK TO A DEAL WITH CHINA MADE BY PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON.

TRUMP WAS RIGHT AGAIN. PANAMA HAD SIGNED A BELT AND ROAD DEAL WITH CHINA.
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
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Panama pledges to end key canal deal with China, work with US after Rubio visit

EXCERPT FROM FOX NEWS

Rubio countering China’s influence on Panama trip is ‘absolutely crucial,’ expert says
Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang weighs in on the new tensions between China and the U.S. over the Panama Canal.

Panama's president vowed Sunday to end a key development deal with China after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and after complaints from President Donald Trump that the Latin American country had ceded control over its critical shipping canal to Beijing.


José Raúl Mulino, Panama's president, said his nation's sovereignty over the 51-mile waterway, which connects the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, will remain unchanged. But he said he would not renew a 2017 memorandum of understanding to join China’s Belt and Road global development initiative and that Panama would instead look to work more closely with the U.S.

"I think this visit opens the door to build new relations … and try to increase as much as possible U.S. investments in Panama," Mulino told reporters after meeting with Rubio on his first international trip since being confirmed.

Rubio, who was a senator representing Florida before Trump tapped him to be America's top diplomat, said his team is ready to push the U.S. agenda.

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