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countries]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/2925f8f3-400e-442a-9702-168dbfebc626</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2925f8f3-400e-442a-9702-168dbfebc626</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 12:51:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump should offer Panama more than threats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Washington has extracted concessions, but now needs to give something back]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/bd15b994-d317-4409-8064-14c703ed545c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">bd15b994-d317-4409-8064-14c703ed545c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:00:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panama to file criminal complaint over canal concession]]></title><description><![CDATA[Move comes hours before visit by Pete Hegseth as US raises pressure over Chinese influence on waterway]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/9316b76f-06c0-4588-9681-91355517a79f</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[My paradise in Panama City, by Fernando Wong]]></title><description><![CDATA[The landscape designer finds peace in the lush vegetation and plazas of his Central American hometown]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/18ba8a5d-0c2b-4627-8ed5-42c09c79c72b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">18ba8a5d-0c2b-4627-8ed5-42c09c79c72b</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 05:00:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[China urges CK Hutchison to ‘think twice’ on Panama ports deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shares hit by commentary saying $22.8bn deal with US asset manager BlackRock ‘disregards national interests’]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b92c5940-ea82-4c22-8ea9-db96246edca7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b92c5940-ea82-4c22-8ea9-db96246edca7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:29:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The billionaire elite who answered Trump’s call on Panama Canal]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Li Ka-shing, Larry Fink and Adebayo Ogunlesi struck a $22.8bn ports deal within weeks]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/81a110e3-51ba-4318-8499-0d8eca3bc6b2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">81a110e3-51ba-4318-8499-0d8eca3bc6b2</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:12:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[BlackRock to buy Panama Canal ports after pressure from Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deal worth $22.8bn involves sale of bulk of those owned by Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b3a1ea24-72c6-4fad-9de1-e7411048ad31</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b3a1ea24-72c6-4fad-9de1-e7411048ad31</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:54:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong’s ‘superman’ billionaire and the battle over the Panama Canal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company founded by 96-year-old Li Ka-shing is caught up in Donald Trump’s complaints about China’s influence]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ad2c590f-3448-4550-a62d-0ecdab282ec8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ad2c590f-3448-4550-a62d-0ecdab282ec8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 05:00:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an idle copper mine in Panama says about the green transition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just as the country is battling Donald Trump’s threats over the Panama Canal, a bitter environmental feud has reopened over the future of the country’s biggest mining project]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/19346af7-f272-41c9-9e3a-2ebd9fad6209</link><guid isPermaLink="false">19346af7-f272-41c9-9e3a-2ebd9fad6209</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panama says US claims of free canal transit for warships are ‘lies’]]></title><description><![CDATA[President escalates dispute with Trump administration over strategic waterway ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/515a9372-1a34-401b-9bac-4b438eb21e05</link><guid isPermaLink="false">515a9372-1a34-401b-9bac-4b438eb21e05</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:52:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[US demands Panama reduce Chinese influence over canal or face action]]></title><description><![CDATA[US secretary of state Marco Rubio says Central American nation is violating canal treaty’s neutrality clause]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b34809e3-3f59-4b05-9caf-27e2f781e7b8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b34809e3-3f59-4b05-9caf-27e2f781e7b8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:35:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s China claims roil Panama as Rubio visits]]></title><description><![CDATA[Central American nation in ‘panic’ as US president issues threats over canal]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/e4e3f8ea-f5de-4225-bfe1-fa1fae48f9c9</link><guid 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talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The president-elect’s expansionist rhetoric is unsettling America’s allies]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/5bc730e5-2ed5-4698-8418-4800a7e8eda9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5bc730e5-2ed5-4698-8418-4800a7e8eda9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:20:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump and Panama trade blows over control of canal]]></title><description><![CDATA[President-elect says he would demand vital waterway be ‘returned’ to US if it is not operated to his liking]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/51a368ef-00d9-44f5-a2f7-2508a68e5ce2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">51a368ef-00d9-44f5-a2f7-2508a68e5ce2</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 01:09:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gas and grain ships shun Panama Canal after drought disruption]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shipbrokers say commodities traders have grown accustomed to longer 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GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panama’s boom years fade as election looms]]></title><description><![CDATA[After forced closure of copper mine, next president will inherit country’s biggest economic challenge in decades]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/c6e51e6f-d052-4ee7-8ae5-eb4777fcdaff</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c6e51e6f-d052-4ee7-8ae5-eb4777fcdaff</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:00:27 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>