The U.S. military is reportedly drawing up plans to increase American troop presence in Panama at the direction of the White House – part of President Donald Trump ’s goal to “take back” the Panama ...

President Trump repeated vows to secure U.S. control of Greenland and the Panama Canal in his speech to a joint a session of Congress on March 4. "We need Greenland for national security and even ...

President Donald Trump has incorrectly claimed China controls the canal (Panama controls it, although China owns ports on both sides of the crucial maritime passage). Trump has threatened to have the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is angry about the plans of a Hong Kong company to sell the ports of the Panama Canal to a ...

Officials in Beijing and Hong Kong spoke out Tuesday against a proposal to sell ports in the Panama Canal to a consortium led by BlackRock, sending shares in the Hong Kong-based conglomerate that owns ...

Panama maintains that it has full control over the canal and that the Hong Kong-based group's operation of the ports did not amount to Chinese control over the waterway, and that therefore the ...