Trump Wants US Ships to Travel Through Panama, Suez Canals for Free

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โ€˜Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America,โ€™ the president said.

President Donald Trump said on April 26 that Americaโ€™s military and commercial ships should be allowed to pass through the Panama and Suez canals โ€œfree of charge.โ€

โ€œThose Canals would not exist without the United States of America,โ€ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. โ€œIโ€™ve asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to immediately take care of, and memorialize, this situation!โ€

Stretching across the isthmus that connects North to South America, the Panama Canal allows ships to quickly traverse between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, carrying roughly 40 percent of U.S. container traffic yearly.

American and British leaders and businessmen discussed plans for building the canal throughout the 1800s as a way to quickly and cheaply transport goods without having to travel around the southern tip of South America to get between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The United States built the canal between 1903 and 1914.

President Jimmy Carter negotiated the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, ratified by the Senate in 1978, that would set in motion the relinquishing of control of the canal to Panama. That finally came to fruition in 1999.

Trump has previously said that he wants to โ€œtake backโ€ the canal and bring it under U.S. control, suggesting that he would not exclude economic or military force from regaining the shipping passageway.

Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the United States was partnering with Panama to secure the Panama Canal while countering Chinaโ€™s โ€œmalign influence.โ€

โ€œThe Panama Canal is key terrain that must be secured by Panama, with America and not China,โ€ Hegseth said at a joint press conference with Panamanian Public Security Minister Frank Abrego.

The two nations signed a memorandum of understanding on bilateral security matters in the region that will see an expansion of joint training exercises between the United States and Panama while improving interoperability between their militaries, the secretary said.

The Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was constructed in the late 1800s after plans to build the shipping corridor had been discussed since the time of Ancient Egypt.

Byย Jacob Burg

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