Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter ...

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

From out of nowhere, the incoming president decided one of his first foreign policy pronouncements would be a demand to better terms for passage in the Panama Canal, after not mentioning a word of ...

New polling shows that a majority of Americans reject president-elect Donald Trump’s recent imperialist demands, including his calls for the U.S. to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland. In ...

His undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and annexing Greenland and even Canada — have left world leaders scrambling to respond. Panama's foreign minister has ...

Amalendu Misra is a recipient of British Academy and Nuffield Foundation Fellowships. For weeks, Donald Trump has been stating his intention to take control of the Panama Canal, a critical 51-mile ...

Cai, who ranks fifth in the ruling Communist Party hierarchy, is a member of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee and director of the party’s general office, making him President Xi Jinping ...

In a December Truth Social missive, Trump accused Panama of “ripping off” the U.S. by charging "exorbitant" fees for ships traveling through the Canal. Later remarks in Phoenix saw the ...

The New York Times' Peter Baker discusses his new reporting 'Carter's Panama Canal, Treaties Symbolize How Much Washington Has Changed.'Jan. 3, 2025 ...

To return the canal to Panama, President Jimmy Carter worked to change minds and build a bipartisan coalition that put aside short-term political considerations. By Peter Baker Reporting from ...

On Dec. 21, 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. In one post, which had ...

A cargo ship traverses the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon, Panama, September 2, 2024 [AP Photo/Matias Delacroix] As he gears up to retake the presidency of the United States this ...