Hong Kong Adds to China’s Growing Criticism of Panama Canal Deal
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Hong Kong Adds to China’s Growing Criticism of Panama Canal Deal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Political pressure is mounting over a plan by a Hong Kong conglomerate to sell its Panama ports to BlackRock, the American investor, raising questions about the future of the $19 billion deal. John Lee, the leader of Hong Kong, added his voice on…

Read the Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech to Congress
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Read the Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech to Congress

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military, trade, immigration and foreign aid. Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook Original Source

Trump, the Panama Canal and China’s Role: What We Know
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Trump, the Panama Canal and China’s Role: What We Know

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s claim that China controls the Panama Canal has placed a Hong Kong tycoon and his conglomerate at the heart of a showdown between the United States and China. That sprawling company, CK Hutchison Holdings, is one of Hong Kong’s most valuable…

Marco Rubio Tells Panama’s Leader ‘Immediate Changes’ Are Needed
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Marco Rubio Tells Panama’s Leader ‘Immediate Changes’ Are Needed

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to escalate the Trump administration’s confrontation with Panama on Sunday, telling its leader that President Trump had determined that Chinese “influence and control” over the Panama Canal threatens the waterway and demanding “immediate changes,” according to the…

Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics
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Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In the end it took only about 12 hours for President Trump’s first head-to-head confrontation with one of the United States’ closest allies in Latin America, a blowup over Colombia’s rejection of U.S. military flights to return illegal immigrants, to result in a…

Panama Alerts United Nations to Trump’s Inaugural Remarks
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Panama Alerts United Nations to Trump’s Inaugural Remarks

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Panama submitted a formal letter to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and the U.N. Security Council on Monday, rejecting comments that President Trump made about reclaiming the Panama Canal during his inauguration speech. “We didn’t give it to China,” Mr. Trump said after…

Greenland to Trump: Not for Sale but Let’s Talk Business
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Greenland to Trump: Not for Sale but Let’s Talk Business

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Greenland is ready to talk. Responding on Monday to the diplomatic earthquake set off last week by President-elect Donald J. Trump, who mused about taking over the gigantic island in the Arctic Ocean, Greenland’s prime minister said the territory would like to work…

Greenland, Panama and Faucets: Trump Conference Shows Hints of Chaos to Come
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Greenland, Panama and Faucets: Trump Conference Shows Hints of Chaos to Come

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Nonetheless, it seemed at times like Mr. Trump was already president, in large part because Mr. Biden has faded from the scene so quickly. This was Mr. Trump’s second full news conference at Mar-a-Lago since he began forming his government, and in that…

Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal
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Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President-elect Donald J. Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that America built more than a century ago and to push Denmark to sell Greenland to…