Panama president-elect warns Trump's America
Panama president-elect warns Trump that if the US neglects a region it has long considered its backyard, the Chinese will gladly fill the gapLaurentino Cortizo holds his grandchildren at a polling station in Panama City, May 5 2019. Picture: LUIS ACOSTA/AFP
The US-educated former agriculture minister and businessman said that if the US neglected a region it has long considered its backyard, it was inviting China to fill the gap. While US President Donald Trump has berated Central American countries for not doing enough to stem waves of migration towards the US, Beijing has courted governments with infrastructure financing and investment.
Panama has long been of strategic interest to powerful nations, with its trans-oceanic canal one of the world’s key trade routes that enables, for example, Chinese products to reach the US east coast.
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