Trump Warns Of “Very Powerful” Action Against Chinese Influence In Panama Canal

U.S President Donald Trump has warned of “something very powerful” happening soon, over China’s influence and control over the Panama Canal. He stated that the critical waterway, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, was not given to China, but a violation of the agreement had taken place.

The Panama Canal dubbed a modern “wonder of the world” by Trump, was built by the U.S. and opened in 1914 at the cost of thousands of lives of labourers, mostly people of African descent from Barbados, Jamaica, and elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Among the first tasks upon returning to the White House, newly sworn-in U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to take control of the canal, handed over to Panama in 1999 by then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter, claiming that it is being operated by Beijing.

Trump stated that he did not think troops would be necessary, but that Panama had violated the agreement and the United States would take back the canal.

“China’s running the Panama Canal…it was not given to China…But they violated the agreement and we’re going to take it back or something very powerful is going to happen.” Trump…

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