The Panama Canal crisis isn’t over yet, and it may be only the first stage of a wider conflict about whether the U.S. can contain China’s control of the world’s commercial maritime logistics network.

Thanks to deregulatory, laissez faire maritime policy, the U.S. has abandoned the oceans, allowing China and foreign shipping ...

The Panama Canal is one of several territories that US President Donald Trump says he wants the US to take control of, amid concerns about China's influence over the waterway. What worries the US ...

The number of vessels that passed through the Panama Canal, the world's second busiest waterway, fell to an average of 32.6 ...

Tensions between Panama and the U.S. rose after World War II, especially after the U.S. pressured France and the UK to give up on attempting to retake control of the Suez Canal from Egypt in 1956.

“We didn’t give the canal to the Chinese. We gave it to Panama,” Rubio declared after he toured one section of the locks, or the multiple complex of “water elevators” that flow ships up ...

President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to take back the waterway to block what he sees as Beijing’s ...

On Wednesday evening, the U.S. State Department said via X that “U.S. government vessels can now transit the Panama Canal without charge fees, saving the U.S. government millions of dollars a ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday denied the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing U.S. warships to transit the Panama ...