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Donald Trump blasted Panama accusing them of “attempting to take down the 64% of signs which are written in Chinese.”
Trump finished the message by saying, “PANAMA IS NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!”
Panama is, with great speed, attempting to take down the 64% of signs which are written in Chinese. They are all over the Zone, because China controls the Panama Canal. PANAMA IS NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!
A bipartisan group of US Senators expressed alarm over China’s influence on the Panama Canal.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday expressed alarm at China’s influence on the Panama Canal, which President Donald Trump has vowed the United States would take back.
“Chinese companies are building a bridge across the canal – at a slow pace so as to take nearly a decade – and control container ports at either end,” Senate Commerce Committee chair Ted Cruz said at a hearing on the canal’s role in U.S. trade and national security.
“The partially-completed bridge gives China the ability to block the canal without warning, and the ports give China ready observation posts to time that action. This situation poses acute risks to U.S. national security,” he added.
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Senator Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the committee, said the U.S. and Panama should work “together to boost port and Canal infrastructure to lower costs and ensure reliability of the Canal.”
She asked for a classified briefing for the committee on foreign adversary threats to the canal and plans to take a group of senators to the canal later this year. “I am concerned about the Chinese-owned ports in Panama and their proximity to the Canal,” Cantwell said.