US demands Panama reduce Chinese influence over canal or face action

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubion said to President of Panamanyan President Jose Raul Mulino, to reduce China’s influence on the Panama canal or immediately consequences.

Rubio met with Mulinoy in Panama and said that President Donald Trump decided that China was “threatening the canal” and violated the agreement with its neutrality.

As long as the situation has not changed, the United States will “take the necessary measures to protect its rights under the agreement,” Bruce wrote.

“The United States cannot and cannot, the Chinese Communist Party will continue its effective and increasing control over the Panama Canal area,” Rubio X wrote.

Mulino, the Panama Conservative Business President described the previous trump card that Chinese soldiers act as “nonsense” and claim that the water pipeline is “There will always be a panamati” water pipeline.

The United States has built the 82-kilometer canal, which connects the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean more than a century ago and controlled the area of ​​the adjacent area, and in 1977, Panama, which ended in 1999.

The contract guarantees the permanent neutrality of the canal and allows us to intervene if neutrality is violated.

While attacking the Chinese influence, Panama’s critics have focused on two ports, at the end of the canal, which run by Hong Monson, the arm of the Kongonian congderties on the Hong Kong list. They were updated without developing applications for 25 years in 2021.

On Sunday, Mulino accepted US concerns to the ports and noted that his government has been conducted by the ports of the port that the market share can be canned as a result of speculation in Panama.

However, it is not clear that the cancellation of Chinese concessions will be enough to meet the trump card, who called the canal fees “complete sprouts” and demanded that the United States withdraw the canal.

On Sunday, about 200 people marched in the Panama capital, driving national flags and shouted at Marco Rubio Panama, when the US Secretary of State continued, the Associated Press reported. Some burn the flag with the images of Trump and Rubio.

In another gesture of the United States, Mulino said that Panama’s participation in the China zone and the initiative of the road infrastructure will not be updated without the expiration of its expiration. Panama joined the belt and on the road in 2017, when it changed diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China.

In recent years, Chinese state-owned companies have built a huge convention to the mouth of the canal and build a new bridge water pipeline and the port of navigation, which were provided through competition processes. Beijing sought to build a great new embassy in the land near the canal, until the US objections killed the scheme.

At the meeting with Mulino and Panamyan Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Akia, Rubio also highly assessed Panama’s efforts to stop illegal migration in a number

Number of illicit migrants of Darién Jungle between Panama and Colombia. In recent years, US General International Migration Way has been written by the United States in recent years. According to Panama National Migration National Body, the numbers decreased by 94% compared to the previous month.