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 ...

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and ...

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

Thanks to deregulatory, laissez faire maritime policy, the U.S. has abandoned the oceans, allowing China and foreign shipping ...

Panama became the first Latin American country to officially join China's Belt and Road Initiative. It leaves at a time Trump ...

A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by tugboats stern and aft, and sweating Panamanians ...

A showdown is building between Communist China and the West.From rising tensions over Taiwan, trade, TikTok, fentanyl, artificial intelligence, the future of Greenland and the Arctic Circle, and the ...

President Donald Trump is a man with a plan for the canal, namely to force Panama to limit China’s influence on the vital 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific or risk the United ...

President Donald Trump, meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in D.C., said he hasn't ruled out tariffs against the Asian nation and wants Nippon Steel to invest in U.S. Steel rather ...

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a briefing that China 'firmly opposes the US smearing and undermining the ...

Panama's decision to leave a key investment deal with China has drawn accusations from Beijing of "pressure and coercion" by ...