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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
Summary
Donald Trump criticized Panama Canal fees as “ridiculous” and demanded lower costs or the canal’s return to the US.
In a Truth Social post, Trump also expressed concern about potential Chinese influence over the waterway, despite no direct Chinese control of canal operations.
The canal, transferred to Panama in 1999, is vital for global trade, handling 5% of maritime traffic.
Trump’s comments follow record revenues of $5 billion announced by the Panama Canal Authority. Panama has not yet responded to his statements.
Its funny because I was against giving it up since we built it but I sure as heck am against taking it back. That is not how stability works. It would be equivalent to crimea and far to close to the fucked up thing we have with israel in the world.
If you build something in a foreign country under the threat of military invasion it is indefensible to claim “rightful ownership” because you built it.
thats not really how it happened. It was financed and france had initiated it and then america purchased the project and completed it. It required a treaty and payments for land use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallarino–Bidlack_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama–United_States_relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama
The history of Panama and the US in general and the Canal in particular is riddled with the US meddling violently in the affairs of Panama and suppressing its people on the behalf of US aligned dictators.
yeah thats fine but all the links before the last were before we even got into the canal which again had its own treaty and predates the UN so this is how things like that were one. Nation to nation. The US has teaties with japan to protect the area to. This is the treaty which spelled out payment and such for the canal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay–Bunau-Varilla_Treaty