Big Trump win as Panama Canal exits China’s orbit

Big Trump win as Panama Canal exits China’s orbit

by WorldTribune Staff, April 9, 2025 Real World News In a major victory for the United States and President Donald Trump, Panama on Tuesday said it would exit China’s Belt and Road Initiative and reaffirmed its security relationship with the United States. “The U.S. and Panama are rebooting their strategic partnership, ditching China’s influence and […]

Squeeze play: Xi Jinping furious at prospect of losing control of Panama Canal ports

Squeeze play: Xi Jinping furious at prospect of losing control of Panama Canal ports

by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2025 Real World News The heartburn President-elect Donald Trump inflicted on China’s Xi Jinping with his Christmas greeting is not getting any better: Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its […]

BlackRock announces deal for Panama Canal ports now managed by Chinese firm

BlackRock announces deal for Panama Canal ports now managed by Chinese firm

by WorldTribune Staff, March 4, 2025 Real World News A BlackRock investors group has agreed to buy majority stakes in Panama Canal ports currently under the control of a Chinese firm, a report said. The investors plan to buy ports on both sides of the canal from Hong Kong-based CK Hutchinson for $22.8 billion, the […]

MAGA worldview: Why should Communist China control the Panama Canal?

MAGA worldview: Why should Communist China control the Panama Canal?

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2024 Real World News The global ramification of the landslide election of Donald J. Trump are being felt daily. With a single post, punctuated by a speech this weekend, the president-elect made waves simultaneously on opposite sides of the globe by dusting off an long-festering issue for many patriotic […]

Report: Chinese migrants constantly arriving in jungles near Darien Gap

Report: Chinese migrants constantly arriving in jungles near Darien Gap

by WorldTribune Staff, July 11, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Chinese migrants are paying enormous sums to cartels to transport them to the jungles near the Darien Gap in Panama, a report said. The Chinese have “totally changed the value market for organized crime, where migrants from this entity pay incredible amounts to facilitate the […]

Panama election shock: New president vows to choke flow of illegal migrants headed North

Panama election shock: New president vows to choke flow of illegal migrants headed North

by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2024 Jose Mulino, the surprise winner of the Panama presidential election, has vowed he “will not permit thousands of illegals to pass through our territory like nothing, without control.” Mulino said he would close the Darien Gap, a swampy jungle on the border with Colombia that serves as a major […]

Report: Taxpayer funds being used to fly illegals into America before they reach the border

Report: Taxpayer funds being used to fly illegals into America before they reach the border

by WorldTribune Staff, February 29, 2024 U.S. taxpayer money is funding processing centers which are flying illegal immigrants into the U.S. interior before they get to the southern border, a report said. Reporting from the Darien Gap on Wednesday, Ben Bergquam of Real America’s voice noted: “Apparently the State Department, lead by Secretary Blinken, is […]

Correspondent spends New Year’s Eve tracking military-age Chinese streaming through Darien Gap

Correspondent spends New Year’s Eve tracking military-age Chinese streaming through Darien Gap

by WorldTribune Staff, January 2, 2024 A combat correspondent reporting from the Darien Gap in Panama on New Year’s Eve said he saw a stream of mostly military-age Chinese men strolling through what is the starting point for many illegal immigrants who plan to cross the southern border into the United States. Michael Yon, a […]

Trump reminds: U.S. under Carter allowed the Panama Canal to come under China’s control

Trump reminds: U.S. under Carter allowed the Panama Canal to come under China’s control

by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2023 In his interview with Tucker Carlson on X on Wednesday night which paralleled the GOP debate, former President Donald Trump noted about China, Cuba and the highly strategic Panama Canal: “We cannot let China be in Cuba. If I’m president, then they’ll get out because I had a very […]

China on the move in America’s backyard, Part II

China on the move in America’s backyard, Part II

Special to WorldTribune Commentary by Laurence F Sanford, April 12, 2023 The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) unrestricted warfare against the United States is gaining footholds in Central and Latin America. More effective than direct kinetic military attacks are economic, political, and law warfare against the  “villain” United States. “Part I” discussed gains in Honduras and […]