In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

Trump’s threat occurs as Panama became an elected member of the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term in ...

Panama is in danger of becoming a case study of how an American hard-power win could become a soft-power loss. America did ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

China has significantly expanded its economic and geopolitical footprint in Latin America, particularly through the ...

On a recent on-site report for NBC News from The Republic of Panama, correspondent Andrea Mitchell stated that the Panama Canal Treaty, signed by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar ...

To protect its interests in Panama without destabilizing the region, the United States must approach this situation with ...

In a flurry of conflicting statements and diplomatic maneuvers, Panama finds itself at the center of a heated debate with the United States over the transit of government vessels through the iconic ...

China on lashed out at what it called U.S. “coercion” after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with ...

China firmly opposes U.S. "smearing and sabotage" of its Belt and Road Initiative through "means of pressure and coercion", a ...

Panama's president says the State Department's claim of an agreement granting U.S. warships free canal passage was "based on ...