“There’s very little wiggle room, absent a second U.S. invasion of Panama, to retake control of the Panama Canal in practical terms,” said Benjamin Gedan, director of the Latin America ...

While threats of tariffs against China, Mexico and Canada have dominated headlines early on in President Donald Trump's second term, a conflict over control of the Panama Canal has become the next ...

its control was given to Panama in 1999. In their meeting, Rubio told the Panamanian leader that Mr. Trump had determined that China's influence on the canal constituted "a threat to the canal and ...

According to the State Department, Rubio told Panamanian officials that Trump believes “the current position of influence and control of the Chinese Communist Party over the Panama Canal area is ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made his first overseas trip as America's top diplomat to Panama. He was met with a storm ...

Security officers attend a ceremony Dec. 31 in Panama City to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United States' ceding control of the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999. (Aris Martinez/Reuters) The ...

Mr. Trump’s threat to revisit the terms of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties (1978), which eventually ceded control of the Panama Canal to Panama ... rushed across the room here to tell me that ...

Rubio's stop in Panama also comes as Trump in recent weeks has said he wants the Panama Canal back under U.S. control, ...

Trump has also repeatedly claimed that Panama has ceded control of the canal to China, which Panama and China deny. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Panamanian President Jose Raul ...

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump reaffirmed his Day 1 promise to seize control of the Panama Canal to counter China's alleged growing influence in the region. The president told reporters ...