US secretary of state Marco Rubio told Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Sunday to reduce China’s influence over the Panama Canal or face immediate consequences.
Rubio met Mulino in Panama City and said US President Donald Trump had determined that China posed “a threat to the canal” and had violated a treaty concerning its neutrality, according to state department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.
Unless the situation changed, the US would “take measures necessary to protect its rights under the Treaty,” wrote Bruce.
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