{"id":69131,"date":"2025-01-26T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/26\/panic-and-defiance-in-panama-after-trump-threatens-to-take-back-canal"},"modified":"2025-01-26T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T07:00:42","slug":"panic-and-defiance-in-panama-after-trump-threatens-to-take-back-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69131","title":{"rendered":"Panic and defiance in Panama after Trump threatens to \u2018take back\u2019 canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomatic frenzy and rattled nerves in republic as mayor and former president reject US president\u2019s comments<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>From a modern control room high above the canal expansion \u2013 overlooking the Cocol\u00ed locks, then lakes, rainforest canopy and, eventually, the Atlantic ocean \u2013 it barely registers that the era of gunboat diplomacy is returning to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/panama-canal\">Panama canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But four days into Donald Trump\u2019s second administration, here we are. Trump has declared that he is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-vows-to-take-back-panama-canal-in-us-foreign-policy-vision\">taking back<\/a>\u201d the Panama canal, sending TV crews from Washington to Beijing scrambling here to cover a crisis that has led to frenzied diplomatic efforts and elicited fears of a repeat of the 1989 US military invasion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/26\/panic-and-defiance-in-panama-after-trump-threatens-to-take-back-canal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomatic frenzy and rattled nerves in republic as mayor and former president reject US president\u2019s commentsFrom a modern control room high above the canal expansion \u2013 overlooking the Cocol\u00ed locks, then lakes, rainforest canopy and, eventually, the At&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4591,"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":[246,50,415,1443,1980,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-panama","category-shipping-industry","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69131","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\/4591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69139,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69131\/revisions\/69139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}