The head of the Federal Maritime Commission will tell a U.S. Senate committee that the United States has options to address the growing presence of China and Chinese firms in Panama. President Donald

China may have investments in the operations of the Panama Canal but its soldiers are not operating it.

Any loss of capacity, which is more likely to be caused by drought will ripple through supply chains and push up costs in Australia.

The US Federal Maritime Commission is addressing the growing presence of China in Panama. With President Trump's intent to regain control of the Panama Canal, US officials, including Chair Louis E. Sola,

China's expanding footprint in Latin America is expected to be high on the agenda when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Panama next week on his first overseas trip since taking office, according to observers.

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump doubled down on his assertion that China runs the Panama Canal. "China is operating the Panama Canal and we didn't give it to China.

China got only one mention in US President Donald Trump's inaugural address on Monday, but the comment was threatening - especially to a country much closer to America. Suggesting that China's operations in the Panama Canal constituted a degree of ownership of the Central American waterway,

China has fired back at President Donald Trump, dismissing his claim that Beijing has seized control of the Panama Canal as baseless and provocative. Newsweek reached out by email to a Trump representative and to Hutchison Ports, a Hong Kong–based port operator that controls ports near the canal, for comment.

Through economic coercion and sharp rhetoric, Trump is signaling that he intends to be a bull in the China shop in hopes of extracting what he wants from allies and adversaries alike.

The head of the Federal Maritime Commission, Louis E. Sola, will testify before a Senate committee regarding China's growing presence in Panama. He emphasizes the need for the U.S. to boost support for American companies in the region,

Declaring that he had been preserved by God to save the world, starting with the United States, Trump made no secret of his admiration America’s authoritarian past — including President William McKinley,