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Chinese solidarity in Panama’s long struggle for sovereignty against US imperialism
The Trump administration increases its interventionist rhetoric and actions regarding the Panama Canal, as China upholds its longstanding support of Panamanian sovereignty, writes TINGS CHAK
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IN HIS first international trip as the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio sent a strong warning message to Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino. Consistent with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign message, Rubio said that “absent immediate changes” to reduce the “China influence” over the Panama Canal, Washington would be required to “take measures necessary.”
In Trump’s inauguration speech two weeks earlier, China’s only mention was linked to the Panama Canal. After declaring that he would rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” Trump lamented how the Panama Canal had been “foolishly given to the country of Panama” and claimed that “above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. We didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.”
Trump’s rhetoric fits neatly into his vocal expansionist and imperialist ambitions, from annexing Greenland and Canada to “taking back” the Panama Canal, which itself was a product of US interventionism and imperialist interest in the region.
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