For decades, Trump has railed against Jimmy Carter’s decision to give the canal to Panama.

and sovereignty over a Canal Zone reaching five miles on either side – cutting a swathe through the middle of the new republic. By the US army corps of engineers, using imported workers from the ...

Donald Trump has long been fixated on the Panama Canal, a crucial shipping route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. He has railed against rising tolls on American ships (though the increases ...

As Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads to Panama on his first official foreign trip, reassumption of American control over the Panama Canal Zone is on the agenda. With Panama refusing to back ...

For most of the 20th century, Panama was physically severed in two by the US-controlled Canal Zone, which ran through the middle of the Central American country. Thanks to Panamanian diplomacy ...

"This increasingly creeping presence of Chinese companies and actors throughout the Canal Zone, in everything from ports and logistics to telecommunications infrastructure and otherwise ...

Panamanian high school students fight with Canal Zone police over a torn Panamanian flag on January 9, 1964. Credit: Getty Images, digitally tinted Running for president in 1976, Republican ...

S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Sunday that the Central American ally must immediately reduce Chinese influence over the Panama Canal area or face ...

"This increasingly creeping presence of Chinese companies and actors throughout the Canal Zone, in everything from ports and logistics to telecommunications infrastructure and otherwise, which is very ...

Shortly before the Secretary of State’s flight arrived, groups of protesters burned U.S. flags in the capital’s center ... the floodgates and gave strategic assets throughout the canal zone to China,” ...

"It wasn't just a diplomatic recognition. He literally opened the floodgates and gave strategic assets throughout the Canal Zone to China," said Mauricio Claver-Carone, the US special envoy on ...