State Secretary of the United States follows an extraordinary threat to President Donald Trump to use the Panaman Channel.
State Secretary of the United States Marco Rubio began his first official foreign trip to stop in Panama, a longtime US ally who shook the extraordinarily President Donald Trump Threat to take away Panama Canal.
It is expected that Rubio will start their tour of the region in the region, Rubio will visit the Strategic Panama Strategic Path on Sunday and meet President Jose Raul Mulin.
“It is no coincidence that the first trip abroad as the Secretary of State will keep me on the hemisphere,” Wall Street Journal wrote on Friday.
The canal is a key connection between Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean and the coast, and 40 percent of container traffic passed through it.
Trump refused to exclude a military force to take away the Panama Channel, which was now handed over to the end of 1999, saying that China had executed too much control by investing in the surrounding ports.
In his inaugural address last month, Trump said he would “take away” now and refused to withdraw it on Friday. “They have already offered to do many things,” Trump said of Panama, “but we think it’s appropriate to bring it back.”
He claimed that Panama removed the signs in Chinese to cover up that they had “completely violated the” about the channel “agreement. “Marco Rubio goes to talk to the Lord who is in charge,” Trump told reporters.
Rubi’s mission also comes to the heel of Trump-native tariffs In Canada, Mexico and China, and freezing almost all American foreign aids – which signal far more aggressive foreign policy.
‘Channel belongs to Panami’
Panama President Mulino has turned off the negotiation With USA over the ownership of the channel. He said he hoped that Rubio’s visit would instead focus on common interests such as migration and fight against drug trade.
“It’s impossible, I can’t negotiate,” Mulino said on Thursday. “The channel belongs to Panami.”
Still, Rubio said he would clarify Trump’s intention. In an interview on Thursday with the host Siriusxm Megyn Kelly, he said that Trump’s desire was guided by the legitimate interests of national security arising from increasing concerns about Chinese activity and influence in Latin America.
“We will deal with this topic,” Rubio said. “The president was quite clear that he wanted to manage the channel again. Obviously, Panamani are not a big fans of that idea. This message was set very clear.”
Despite Mulin’s rejection of any negotiations, some believe that Panama may be open to a compromise under which channel operations on both sides were taken away from Hong Congo’s Hutchison Ports Company.
It is unclear whether Trump accepts the transfer of a concession to the American or European company as fulfilling his requests, and they seem to cover more than only surgery.
“In some ways, Trump is pushing at the open door,” said Ryan Berg, director of the US program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research center based in Washington, DC. “But it will depend on how his red lines are defined.”
“There were a lot of heavy rhetoric and it will be worse [to] Rubio clarify, “he said.
