Rubio Bhoomi in Panama as ‘Back’ canal as Trump | Donald Trump News
US State Secretary follows exceptional threat to seizing the Panama Canal of President Donald Trump.
United States Secretary Marco Rubio has discontinued his first official foreign trip with a stop in Panama, which is an extraordinary threat to seizing the Panama Canal by President Donald Trump.
Rubbio is expected to visit Panama’s strategic waterway and meet President Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday, closing his five countries in the region.
“It is not an accident that my first visit abroad as the Secretary of State will keep me in hemisphere,” he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column on Friday.
The canal is an important link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the coasts, with 40 percent of American container traffic going through it.
Trump refused to rule the military force to seize the Panama Canal, which the US handed over in the late 1999, saying that China has kept a lot of control through its investment in the surrounding ports. .
In his inaugural address last month, Trump said that the US “would take it back”, and refused to return on Friday. “They have already offered many things,” Trump said about Panama, “But we think it’s appropriate that we take back it.”
He alleged that the Panama was taking down the signs of the Chinese language to “completely violate the agreement” on the canal. “Marco Rubio is going to talk to a gentleman who is in charge,” Trump told reporters.
The mission of Rubio also falls on the heels of the trump-laid tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, and almost all American foreign aids indicate a more aggressive foreign policy.
‘Canal is from Panama’
Panama’s President Mulino refused to negotiate with the US over the ownership of the canal. He said that he hoped that Rubio’s visit will focus on shared interests like migration and drug trafficking instead.
Mulino said on Thursday, “This is impossible, I cannot talk.” “Canal belongs to Panama.”
Nevertheless, Rubio said that he would clarify Trump’s intentions. In an interview on Thursday with SeriusXM host Maine Kelly, he said that Trump’s will is operated by legitimate national security interests that stems from increasing concerns about Chinese activity and impact in Latin America.
“We are going to address that topic,” Rubio said. “The President is very clear that he wants to administration of the canal again. Obviously, Panamanians are not a big fan of that idea. That message is very clear. ,
Despite the rejection of the Mulino of any conversation, some people believe that Panama may be open to an agreement under which the operation of the canal on both sides is taken away from the Hallison Ports Company in Hong Kong.
It is unclear whether Trump will meet his demands as an American or European firm will accept the transfer of concession, which only cover more than operations.
“In some ways, Trump is emphasizing an open door,” said Ryan Berg, director of the US program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, A Washington, DC-based think tank. “But it will depend on how his red lines are defined.”
He said, “There has been a lot of heavy rhetoric and to clarify it, Rubio will be up (),” he said.
