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 ...

President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet to the Panamanian government-threatening to retake the canal, by force if ...

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

Officials cut the ribbon on a new Acoustic Test Facility and Instrumentation building at NSA Panama City in PCB on Feb. 5.

The Trump administration is framing the President’s vow to take back the Panama Canal as an economic investment, not “imperialistic expansion." ...

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

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

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

The Trump administration needs to figure out the proper balance between coercion and diplomacy, and how it affects ...

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 ...