Panama’s President Jose Raul Murino has accused the United States of “a very simple and enduring falsehood” of the Panama Canal. latin america.
The US State Department claimed later Wednesday that Central American countries agreed not to charge US government vessels to pass through the canal.
However, Panama Canal authorities, in the eyes of a diplomatic storm created by Trump’s highly controversial attitude, have denied the claim and announced they have not “adjusted” its tolls or freely.
On Thursday, Murino rejected the State Department’s claims on more emphasis, telling reporters:
Later on Thursday, Murino later announced he would be talking to Trump on the phone on Friday.
Repeated unfounded claims that Trump “silly” returned the canal that the US built in 1999 to Panama’s control was “silly” just to be handed over to China. After that, he fell out. “And we’re going to get it back, or something really powerful will happen,” Trump warned on Sunday.
As the US President said, his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had delivered a similar message directly to Murino during his five-country tour of Latin America that began in Panama.
Rubio told Murino that Trump believes “the current status of Chinese Communist Party’s influence and control in the Panama Canal region is a threat to the canal,” and believes it is “unacceptable.” Ta. Rubio added: “In the absence of immediate changes, the United States must take the necessary steps to protect its rights.”
In response to Murino’s comments on Thursday, Rubio said: The obligations of that treaty must be enforced by the US military, particularly the US Navy. I think it’s ridiculous that you have to pay to pass through a zone you have to protect in an age of conflict. ”
Most analysts suggest that George Howe Bush’s 1989 invasion to resign Panama’s dictator Manuel Noriega is not impossible, but most ana List believes that US military action is unlikely to reclaim the canal.
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One of the main motivations behind Trump’s rhetoric is to slow down economic pushes in Panama and other countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean to areas that the US has long considered “backyards.” It appears that they are putting pressure on Panama. Beijing’s regional footprint has grown significantly over the past 25 years, with China overtaking the US as South America’s biggest trading partner.
Trump’s anti-China strategy could be rewarded. On Thursday, the Panama president announced that his country’s diplomats had told Chinese counterparts that the Chinese country was ending its involvement in China’s “belt and roads” initiative. The scheme is based on the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which builds huge amounts of infrastructure from Ethiopian railways from Thailand and Ethiopia, and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will promote economic growth around the world. It’s a development campaign that’s over a trillion dollars that you’re hoping to do. Recently, we opened “Megaport” in Peru.
On Wednesday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jiang said that the US “deliberately distorted and attacked, and falsely mis-cooperated related cooperation” was in the US, which said it was “a irresponsible statement about the Panama Canal issue, intentionally distorted and attacked, and falsely misinformed cooperation.” He criticized him for doing so. The “Belt and Road” initiative cooperation “achieved fruitful results” between Panama and China, Lin argued.
