Ninety-six-year-old Li Ka-shing earned the nickname “superman” for his uncanny sense of when to sell. Not for the first time, ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is angry about a Hong Kong company’s plan to sell Panama Canal ports to a U.S.-led group, in part ...

Panama’s response has been strategically sophisticated. Amb. Eloy Alfaro formally invoked UN Charter Article 2 (4) ...

Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he wants to “take back” the Panama Canal but has not offered specifics about how he ...

Economic development scholar Ricardo Hausmann explains the history of the canal, Panama’s investment and development of the ...

During his inaugural address in January, President Trump proclaimed that “China is operating the Panama Canal” and promised that the United States would be “taking it back.” Shortly after ...

The second image recalls 1977, when Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos and then-US President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty that established the canal's handover to Panama on Dec 31, 1999. The last two ...

The United States is one step closer to reclaiming a strategic foothold in the Panama Canal as a BlackRock-led consortium strikes a £17.92 billion ($23 billion) deal to acquire key port ...

which was returned by the U.S. to Panama in 1999 under a neutrality treaty. The ports are not part of the canal nor needed for vessels to pass through the interoceanic way, which is mostly used by ...

Washington relinquished control of the waterway to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. Trump has claimed that Carter “foolishly” gave the canal away.

Hearing President Donald Trump speak about his designs for the Panama Canal prompted me to look up the classic "Firing Line" debate over the ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty back in 1978, an ...