{"id":69074,"date":"2025-01-23T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T05:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/23\/donald-trump-panama-canal-operation-china-claims-explainer"},"modified":"2025-01-23T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T05:26:29","slug":"trump-says-china-is-operating-the-panama-canal-here-are-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69074","title":{"rendered":"Trump says China is \u2018operating\u2019 the Panama Canal \u2013 here are the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president has singled out China during his complaints about the Panama Canal \u2013 so what influence does Beijing have?<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has repeatedly complained about the Panama Canal and the fees being charged, calling the vital transport corridor a \u201cfoolish gift [to Panama] that should never have been made\u201d and threatening to take it back.<\/p>\n<p>But he has also repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-vows-to-take-back-panama-canal-in-us-foreign-policy-vision\">accused China of being in control of it<\/a>. At his inauguration Trump claimed without providing evidence that \u201cChina is operating the Panama Canal and we didn\u2019t give it to China. We gave it to Panama and we\u2019re taking it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/23\/donald-trump-panama-canal-operation-china-claims-explainer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president has singled out China during his complaints about the Panama Canal \u2013 so what influence does Beijing have?Donald Trump has repeatedly complained about the Panama Canal and the fees being charged, calling the vital transport corridor a \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[246,50,415,1443,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-panama","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69074","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69074\/revisions\/69084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}