A map created by Newsweek ... continued claims that China controls the canal—a charge denied by both Beijing and Panama. He also accused the Latin American nation of levying unfair passage ...

to retake control of the Panama Canal in practical terms,” said Benjamin Gedan, director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.

President Trump’s escalating rhetoric over the Panama Canal ... coordinating American military operations throughout Latin America from a strategic hilltop overlooking the canal’s Pacific ...

China on Monday said Washington's “smear campaigns” against it are an “excuse to control” Latin America, as US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Panama Canal faces “ongoing threats ...