- USA
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- Panama
  location
- Marco Rubio
  person
- Donald Trump
  person

Marco Rubio issues Panama ultimatum over 'Chinese influence' on canal

The Independent

The Independent

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On his first trip overseas as the top US diplomat, Rubio took a guided tour of the canal accompanied by its Panamanian administrator as a South Korean-affiliated oil tanker and Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship passed through the vital link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Daily Tribune
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During a meeting with Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino and Foreign Minister Javier Martinez on Sunday in Panama City, Rubio conveyed US President Donald Trump's concerns.
Asianet Newsable
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He pointed to the "influence and control" of China over the canal, through which some 40 percent of US container traffic passes.
The Manila Times
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The Panama Canal -- which Donald Trump has dubbed a modern "wonder of the world" -- was built by the US and opened in 1914 at the cost of thousands of lives of laborers, mostly people of African descent from Barbados, Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean.
Hindustan Times

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