{"id":69299,"date":"2025-02-05T04:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/04\/panama-canal-lawsuit-ports-china"},"modified":"2025-02-05T04:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:04:33","slug":"panama-court-is-asked-to-cancel-hong-kong-firms-contract-to-run-canal-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69299","title":{"rendered":"Panama court is asked to cancel Hong Kong firm\u2019s contract to run canal ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complaint by local lawyers to supreme court follows US demands to reduce China\u2019s alleged influence on waterway<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/23\/donald-trump-panama-canal-operation-china-claims-explainer\">Trump says China is \u2018operating\u2019 the Panama canal \u2013 here are the facts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two Panamanian lawyers have lodged a lawsuit with the country\u2019s supreme court in an attempt to cancel a Hong Kong-based company\u2019s concession to operate two ports at either end of the Panama canal.<\/p>\n<p>Their complaint \u2013 filed a day after the US secretary of state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/marco-rubio\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, told Panama\u2019s president, Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Mulino, to reduce China\u2019s alleged influence on the canal \u2013 argues that the contract for the two ports is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/04\/panama-canal-lawsuit-ports-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complaint by local lawyers to supreme court follows US demands to reduce China\u2019s alleged influence on waterwayTrump says China is \u2018operating\u2019 the Panama canal \u2013 here are the factsTwo Panamanian lawyers have lodged a lawsuit with the country\u2019s supreme c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4605,"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":[246,50,415,1443,3234,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-panama","category-panama-canal","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\/69299","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\/4605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69300,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69299\/revisions\/69300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}