The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

And how did it secure the rights? Partly by gunboat diplomacy. The US government bought the French canal concession, but Panama was then ... By the US army corps of engineers, using imported ...

Trump's inaugural address fondly referred to Teddy Roosevelt, the US president most associated with the Panama Canal, citing it as one of "the great things he did". The reference was telling.

Would Trump really green-light a US ... Canal? Are his attacks intended as a broader brushback to China in an escalating battle over hemispheric influence? Or perhaps, as some in Panama speculate ...

But that was exactly what the U.S. did ... to celebrate the canal as a crowning achievement for the United States, in reality, it would not have been built without Panama sacrificing the broad ...

He also did not offer specifics on how or by what ... Before the construction of the Panama Canal, a ship traveling between the east and west coasts of the United States needed to travel all the way ...

As United States President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term on Monday, he repeated his wishes to acquire the Panama Canal and rename the Gulf of Mexico in his inaugural speech.

had to engineer and bankroll the creation of the country of Panama. Panama was then a province of Colombia. But Colombia was refusing to grant the United States sovereignty over the Panama Canal ...

In 1903, Panama was a province of the sovereign state of Colombia. Failed efforts to construct a trans-isthmian canal ... did members of his White House staff. It cost him his job. Nixon got us ...