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Why Trump is right to be concerned about the Panama Canal

China's growing influence jeopardizes the Western Hemisphere's most important commercial trade hub.

Dec 26, 2024
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Of all the fateful decisions made by the Carter Administration, relinquishing control of the Panama Canal may prove to be the worst of the lot.

On September 7, 1977 President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian General Omar Torrijos signed the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. These two agreements ceded control of the canal to Panam…

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