President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

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 ...

The Trump administration needs to figure out the proper balance between coercion and diplomacy, and how it affects ...

President Trump says the canal authority is overcharging. Recent increases are attributed in part to drought, maintenance ...

President Trump is wrong when he says China controls the Panama Canal. But the U.S. rival does have influence there, and the ...

“A man, a plan, a canal — Panama,” so the famous palindrome goes. Just a quick history review. The U.S. took over canal construction from the French in 1904, completing it in 1914 for $375 ...

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 ...

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

The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?