In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

Thanks to deregulatory, laissez faire maritime policy, the U.S. has abandoned the oceans, allowing China and foreign shipping ...

Panama is in danger of becoming a case study of how an American hard-power win could become a soft-power loss. America did ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

Rarely do Panamanians unite on political topics, but threats to the ownership of the canal go to the heart of national ...

The Ishiba-Trump summit symbolized the stability of the Japan-U.S. relationship under a disruptive U.S. president.

The president claims Chinese soldiers are working in the canal. That’s nonsense.

Sinking yields lessened the intense pressure on EM currencies, pressure which had forced 'doom loop' EM currency intervention ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has walked back the assertion of the State Department that Panama “has agreed to no longer ...

Something very powerful is going to happen,” Trump warned from Washington, casting a shadow over Rubio’s diplomatic mission ...

When Panama signed up for China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative in 2017, it became the first country in Latin America to join ...