These environmental challenges are more significant threats to U.S. commerce than Chinese influence. Sustained access to the canal will depend on addressing climate change impacts.

The Panama Canal has a complicated history, although we found no evidence of it being under China's control as Trump also ...

Panama is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the U.S. handover of the Panama Canal, which President-elect Donald Trump has ...

President Trump isn’t without leverage.

China has voiced its support for Panama to retain control of the Panama Canal after Trump floated the idea of taking back control of the trade route.

"I think it (the canal) is 100 percent Panama, yeah, and it should stay such," said one, Natalia Glusack, a 47-year-old accountant from California vacationing with her mother. She was among around ...

The anniversary comes two days after the death of former US president Jimmy Carter, at age 100, who signed the canal treaties that led to the vital waterway's transfer on December 31, 1999.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Panama John Feeley on Sunday said it would take a war for the United States to take back the Panama Canal. “To attempt to take it back today, I’d like to ask you, go ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino strongly rejected claims made by former U.S. President Donald Trump regarding Chinese interference in the operation of the Panama Canal. On December 26 ...

President-elect Donald Trump has set global nerves on edge with a trifecta of venturous provocations — musing about purchasing Greenland, reclaiming the Panama Canal and annexing Canada ...

PANAMA CITY—Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Sunday, often regarded the U.S. transfer of control of the Panama Canal to Panama as one of the defining moments of his presidency. The signing of ...