Louis Sola, President Donald Trump's newly appointed head of the Federal Maritime Commission, said no-bid contracts give China an unfair advantage at the Panama Canal and nearby ports, and reports that Chinese companies are getting canal tolls refunded are "alarming."
Trump has threatened to reassert U.S. control over the canal, a threat categorically rejected by Panama's government.
The FMC head said the U.S. can issue substantial daily fines to the Panamanian government and bar Panamanian-flagged vessels from calling at U.S. ports if it finds that Panama's laws or practices are harmful to U.S. shipping.
Posted by John3262005
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**ALL** options on the table 🤔
Even the good ones of just leaving Panama alone 🤔🤔
(No of course not)
> “If [the Panamanian Government is] going to give subsidiaries to Chinese vessels or subsidiaries to Chinese ports we have to see what’s in the best interest of the U.S. shipper and to ship U.S. goods. If that does become an issue, we do have all options on the table when it comes to business,” he said.
Terrible headline
These guys suck ass and I hate them
Inventing crises for fun and profit(?)
The perils of having an 80 year old President is that he still thinks the US is owed something because it built a canal like 110 years ago.
Oh yeah, I bet the option of turning the canal backwards so that land flows into the oceans isn’t on the table.
Checkmate, lying lib media
What if we just built a second canal but in Costa Rica or something, and this time we owned it and gave Costa Rica a big cut.
Wouldn’t that solve a lot of issues (unemployed young men can learn to build infrastructure), Panama can shove it, and we can focus on the important stuff like bringing TSMC engineers to the southwest,
Seeing the US go batshit insane with going into elementary schools to find undocumented children, threatening friendly NATO countries and the shit with Panama helps me understand why Batman had contingency plans for Superman lol.
I wouldn’t be surprised if after Trump is gone the US loses a lot of its influence. Im not saying they wont be the global power but other countries are going to be very hesitant. They might not fully rely on the US for global stability like they currently do.
operation unjust cause
Sorry but I’m firmly on team “Nothing Ever Happens” regarding this. If nothing else Trump just doesn’t have the attention span and will probably move on to some EO about how trans people can’t have cookies or some shit in a month.
If I’m wrong (about the Panama thing, not the cookies) feel free to rub it in my face