Secretary of State Marco Rubio scored a win in the Trump administration’s opening salvo against China by convincing Panama to back out of China’s signature investment program, and in the process, developing a playbook to combat China’s broader influence in the region and around the globe.
Rubio’s trip was preceded by stark demands from President Donald Trump who, playing the bad cop, has insisted that the United States would be forced to move to exert control over the Panama Canal if Chinese influence around the valuable waterway is not curtailed.
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