At a meeting with Panama's President Jose Laul Mulino on Sunday, Donald Trump's administration has taken the Panama Canal in a meeting with Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino. He suggested that he might move. 。
Rubio has arrived in Panama for his first overseas travel since it was confirmed as a top American diplomat in the United States this weekend. This indicates that both him and the Trump administration prioritize Latin America in foreign policy. Rubio stops in Panama and travels to El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Dominica Republic.
Trump began to raise the problem of American national security threats in the Panama Canal as a presidential election, and Panama allows Panama to control the traffic around the canal, and Panama has Panama. He accused him of claiming to travel there.
“Looking at the Panama Canal is essential for our country. It is operated by China. We handed the Panama Canal to Panama. We did not give it to China, and they do it. I was abused, “said Trump just before becoming appointed. “They abused the gift.”
Panama dominated the Panama Canal built by the United States before Panama was established under the 1978 Trihos Carter Treaty, a former President of former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. This treaty demands that Panama continues to run the canal as a neutral territory without liking foreign power, and if Panama violates the neutral provision, Washington can seize it.
Rubio of the Ministry of State said that in a summary of a meeting with President Murino, the Panama government believes that Panama government believes that Panama has broken Panama and Panama is claiming the canal. Ta. The Secretary of State believes to the President, “The current position of the Chinese Communist Party in the Panama Canal region is a threat to the canal, which indicates a violation of Panama's permanent neutrality and management treaty. I said.
“Lubio has revealed that this situation is unacceptable and there is no immediate change, which will require the United States to take necessary measures to protect the rights based on the treaty.” Spokes Mantomy Blues relay。
Rubio revealed during the confirmation Hearing He was thinking about the possibility of violating the treaty.
“Technically, the sovereignty over the canal has not been handed over to foreign forces, but in fact, there is a possibility that there is a possibility that the condition that the canal was taken over was violated. Rubio has been forced to do it through their company.
Reading the State Department did not explain in detail what measures the United States could take. Several options include incidents in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague, the top of the United Nations. court To submit a dispute, or HargleSimilarly, the party's case is determined. In late January, the Panama government sent a letter to the UN Secretary -General of Antonio Gutless in anticipation of such actions, urging the United Nations to support Panama if the United States challenged the canal.
The Mulino government violently denied that China had an excessive effect on the canal, and Mulino himself said it was impossible to negotiate the canal's rule. At a press conference on Thursday, with the hope that Rubio would arrive, Mulino claimed that there was no Chinese military in the canal, and urged the United States to provide evidence to whether or not it existed.
“Regarding the Panama Canal … The first thing I want to say is in these first months that I haven't received from the US Embassy … I definitely have information about the suspicion of foreign military beings on the canal. Murino told the reporters. “If it existed, they did not send it to us in the official method, so they kept it in themselves.”
“Panama dominated the Panama Canal, and the management was always in Panama,” he repeated.
The president's office of Panama was an official statement about Mulino and Rubio, indicating that the conversation was hostile or opposed in some way. On the contrary, A Read out From the conference office, Mulino himself said that he felt the conversation was “very respectful and sincere.” Mulino, the president in 2024, is a conservative who has won his election, mainly to suppress illegal large -scale migration in Panama's Darien Gap.
In a gesture aimed at immediately dealing with the White House concerns, Mulino has announced that Panama will leave the Chinese Communist Party's global infinici -chi -to -Belt and road initiative (BRI).
“Panama has promised not to update the signed memorandum signed by the People's Republic of China,” said the Panama government. “In addition, the Panama Canal Bureau's technical team has also decided to host officials designated by the US government to clarify all doubts about the method of aquatic life.”
Mulino told reporters, “I understand that this is the concern of President Donald Trump,” and indicated that he had opposed China's interests directly to deal with the canal.
