{"id":68849,"date":"2025-01-11T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/10\/panama-canal-to-be-run-by-panama-and-open-to-trade-from-all-nations-says-official"},"modified":"2025-01-11T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:00:08","slug":"panama-canal-will-remain-panamanian-and-open-to-all-nations-says-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68849","title":{"rendered":"Panama Canal will remain Panamanian and open to all nations, says official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Administrator rejects Donald Trump\u2019s claims that China controls canal or suggestion US could take it back<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/23\/panama-canal-donald-trump-us-explainer\">Who owns the Panama Canal and what does Trump want with it?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Panama Canal will remain in Panamanian hands, and open to commerce from all countries, according to the administrator of the waterway, who rejected claims by president-elect Donald Trump that the US should take it over.<\/p>\n<p>Ricaurte V\u00e1squez denied Trump\u2019s claims that China was controlling the canal\u2019s operations, and said making exceptions to current rules concerning its operation would lead to \u201cchaos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/10\/panama-canal-to-be-run-by-panama-and-open-to-trade-from-all-nations-says-official\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administrator rejects Donald Trump\u2019s claims that China controls canal or suggestion US could take it backWho owns the Panama Canal and what does Trump want with it?The Panama Canal will remain in Panamanian hands, and open to commerce from all countrie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,415,557,1443,1980,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-international-trade","category-panama","category-shipping-industry","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68850,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68849\/revisions\/68850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}