Donald Trump goes light on China on Day One, except where the Panama Canal is concerned


China got only one mention in US President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday, but the comment was threatening – especially to a country much closer to America.

Suggesting that China’s operations in the Panama Canal constituted a degree of ownership of the Central American waterway, Trump asserted that Panama – the country it runs through – violated the treaty that transferred the canal to it.

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