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Every day, dozens of cargo ships pass by blue cranes at a port near the Pacific Ocean entrance, the towering skyline of Panama City visible across the horizon. About eight hours later, they drift past another terminal stacked with containers as they exit into the Atlantic.
These facilities are run by Hong Kong port operator Hutchison Whampoa. And that is the crux of the problem for the Trump administration, which sees the Chinese infrastructure around the canal as a national-security threat.
"China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China," Trump said in his inaugural address, referring to the 1977 treaty that handed control of it to Panama. "We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back."
Trump said it is a violation of the purpose and spirit of U.S.-Panama treaties that required the canal to remain neutral when Washington turned over the American-built canal to Panama in 1999.
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