They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.

Marco Rubio will travel to Panama on his first trip abroad as secretary of State. The visit comes as Donald Trump looks to ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Panama on his first trip abroad as the top U.S. diplomat after President Donald Trump’s calls to seize the country’s canal, three unnamed officials told ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding ...

U.S. President Jimmy Carter cut diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979 in favor of better ties with China. Though Beijing ...

Carter's diplomatic achievements in both areas sealed his legacy: US diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China ...

We didn't give it to China. And they've abused it. They've abused that gift. It should have never been made." While former President Carter was lying in state at the Capitol, Trump said he liked ...

“Jimmy Carter really was facing a lot of opposition” in China and the United States, said Brian P. Hilton, a historian of Cold War diplomacy. “What Carter did was he took that basic idea of ...

Despite a history marked by a barrage of insults and mutual disdain, the 39th and 45th U.S. presidents found common ground – if not outright agreement – on China. And Carter’s enduring ...

found new homes from Maine to China. And their legacy still reverberates. By Austyn Gaffney It was a novel idea at the time, but one that made sense: In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had 32 solar ...