3 days ago · With US President Donald Trump focusing on the critical waterway early in his second term, Atlantic Council experts explain how the canal came about, why it matters today, and what to expect next. ... 1914, the cargo ship SS Ancon made the first official transit of the Panama Canal, completing the passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ...

3 days ago · This move sowed discord in the Republican Party, the rumblings of which are most clearly felt in President Donald Trump’s recent pledge to retake the canal. I spoke with Franklin about why Trump ...

Jan 23, 2025 · In Trump’s newly hatched vision of empire, America stands poised to expand—not just into Panama but into Greenland and outer space—simply because its raw power entitles it to expand. To use ...

Jan 7, 2025 · Since winning a second presidential term, Donald Trump has made a curious pivot to a kind of performative imperialism. Immediately after November’s election, he began musing about acquiring...

Jan 21, 2025 · Donald Trump will issue a raft of executive orders aimed at re-shaping how the United States deals with citizenship and immigration, an incoming administration official told reporters on Monday ...

Jan 8, 2025 · The canal serves as a shortcut between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea and, beyond that, the Atlantic Ocean. Trump said that the United States needs the Panama Canal for "economic security ...

Jan 20, 2025 · In the first speech of his second term, President Donald Trump denounced a deal made decades ago, ... the vital passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But while thousands of people ...

Jan 7, 2025 · President-elect Donald Trump is readying his plans for when he enters office on Jan. 20. During a press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 7, the 78-year-old shared his plan for renaming the Gulf of...

Dec 23, 2024 · On Sunday, United States President-elect Donald Trump said that his new administration will try and regain control of the Panama Canal. His statements drew rebuke from Panama President Jose...

Dec 23, 2024 · The thought of China is haunting Donald Trump who is troubled over Beijing's growing influence right under US' tail - the Panama Canal - a bridge connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific...