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Russia warns Trump against seizing Panama Canal

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      I really feel uncomfortable because it’s like when you’re big and you take a candy from a little kid,
      The Independent
      Barrera said
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      American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal,
      The Independent
      Trump said Monday
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      Donald Trump
      We’re taking it back.”
      The New York Times
      On Monday, President Trump said of the Panama Canal
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      José Raúl Mulino
      As President, I want to express precisely that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent area belong to PANAMA, and will continue to be.”
      CNN
      Following Trump’s assertions that the canal should be returned to the United States, Panama‘s President José Raúl Mulino issued a statement in December saying
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      Our Navy and Commerce have been treated in a very unfair and injudicious way. The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous,
      Gulf News
      Trump posted on his Truth Social platform in November
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      The canal is and will remain Panama's,
      CNA
      Mulino said, calling for dialogue to address any issues
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      Above all, China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China, we gave it to Panama. And we're taking it back,
      CNA
      Trump said after being sworn in inside the US Capitol
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      The Panama Canal is our oil, and this is as if you’re threatening to take oil from Saudi Arabia, to take away the oil wells,
      CNN
      said Diaz-Espino
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      We paid for it, we built it, and right now over 55% of the revenues of the Panama Canal are coming from that investment, not from the US investment that they made so long ago,
      CNN
      former Administrator of the Panama Canal Jorge Luis Quijano told CNN
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      It was colonialism. The country was divided in two and you couldn’t even go inside,
      CNN
      said author Diaz-Espino of the Canal Zone
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      Jimmy Carter
      Fairness and not force should lie at the heart of our dealings with the nations of the world,
      CNN
      Carter said at the signing ceremony for the accords
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      Canal is opened by Wilson’s finger,
      CNN
      read the headline in next day’s New York Times
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      Panama is doing so well with the canal, there are many workers, there is so much employment,
      CNN
      Trump said in 2011.
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      We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama’s promise to us has been broken. The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated,
      Hindustan Times
      Trump stated
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      The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons,
      Hindustan Times
      he declared
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      And we will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars,
      Hindustan Times
      Trump added
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      There is no presence of any nation in the world that interferes,
      Ukrainska Pravda
      Mulino said
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      This was the ‘Monroe Doctrine and Mars’ inaugural address, appealing for expansion and colonisation in the western hemisphere – plus space – but saying next to nothing about America’s military role in Europe, the Middle East and even Asia,
      Guardian
      wrote Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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      We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”
      Guardian
      In remarks that appeared to allude to that conflict, he said
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      I’m pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families,
      Guardian
      he said to applause from his supporters