State Secretary Marco Rubio meets with the Panaman President in the middle of Trump’s Push Panama Channel
State Secretary Marco Rubio met with Panaman President José Raul Mulin on Sunday in the middle of his First foreign journeyAs Trump’s administration encourages for Control of the Panama Canal.
Rubio, the first Latin Secretary -General, made a part of his journey to repeat the concern of President Trump that China had too much influence on the Panama Channel, and should be controlled by the fruitful path for economic security, although Mulino rejected the lawsuit. Rubio toured the channel on Sunday and doubled the administration plan to change immediately, according to a spokeswoman for his office, Tammy Bruce.
“The Secretary Rubio also emphasized the importance of an associate effort to end the illegal migration crisis of the Hemisphere and thanked President Mulin for his support for the joint reputation program, which reduced illegal migration through Darien Gap,” Bruce said in a statement.
Speaking at the US Embassy, the Secretary of State said that Panama was very important for the US and thanked all the staff who serve the embassy.
The Panaman Channel serves as a shortcut between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. And although the US has been conducting the construction of the main navigation path through which about 40% of the world’s cargo ship is now moving, its control is Data Panami in 1999.
At the meeting, Rubio told the Panaman leader that Mr. Trump found that the Chinese influence on the Panaman channel was “threatening the channel and is a violation of the Treaty of Permanent Neutrality and the Panaman Channel,” a spokesman said in a statement.
In the meantime, President Trump on Saturday signed An executive command that imposes 25% of tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, who come after a months -long threat to do so because it seeks to influence trade policy even against some of the greatest economic allies of the USA.
Mr. Trump admitted on Sunday that there may be “pain” with tariffs in the social media post. But he claimed that “everything would be worth the price that must be paid.”
Tariffs come in part to suppress the flow of unfathomable immigrants, as well as illegal drugs, in American and Rubin, the first foreign visit to Central America and the Caribbean, of which Panama is an initial stop, is also coming because Trump’s administration is looking for cooperation about its immigration policy from nearby countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Dominican Republic.
Senator Mark Warner, Democrat in Virginia, criticized the president’s move on Sunday, saying Appearance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan“To Tariff” will eventually cost consumers, “with increased prices of goods from avocado and beer to cars and trucks.
“Remember, Donald Trump is employed trying to lower, saying he will lower the groceries,” Warner said. “Two weeks, doing something that will do absolutely the opposite.”
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