卢比奥称东大对巴拿马运河的影响“难以接受”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-02/rubio-calls-chinese-influence-over-panama-canal-unacceptable

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panamanian leaders that the US would protect its rights under the Panama Canal Treaty if the Central American nation didn’t move to oust Chinese-connected companies near the critical waterway.

“The current position of influence and control of the Chinese Communist Party over the Panama Canal area is a threat to the canal and represents a violation of the Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal,” according to a State Department readout of Rubio’s meeting with Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino and Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha.

Rubio, echoing complaints President Donald Trump has made since December, “made clear that this status quo is unacceptable and that absent immediate changes, it would require the United States to take measures necessary to protect its rights under the Treaty,” the statement said.

Mulino, speaking to reporters after the meeting, appeared unfazed.

“I don’t sense any real threat against the treaty or its validity, and much less of the use of military force to take over the canal,” he said in Spanish. “I don’t sense that.”

China’s influence has been growing in the region. In 2017, a previous Panamanian government severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan and declared that there was “only one China” — a move that has occurred in several Latin American nations in recent years.

China’s foreign ministry has said that it will always respect Panama’s sovereignty over the canal, and recognizes it as a permanently neutral international waterway.

A Chinese company —- a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. —- has two of the five ports adjacent to it, one on each side. Under Panama’s constitution, the canal is managed by the Panama Canal Authority, with some of the tolls going into the national treasury.

The Panama Canal has come under heightened scrutiny since December, when Trump complained that it’s charging exorbitant rates to US ships. He demanded that fees either be lowered, or that Panama return the canal to the US.

Mulino has previously said his country would not give up control of the canal.

In a Truth Social post, Trump called the fees “ridiculous” and the current situation a “complete ‘rip-off.’” In his inaugural address last month, Trump reiterated his claim that China is operating the Panama Canal and said his administration would take it back.

The US built the canal at the start of the 20th century and ceded it back to Panama in 1999 under a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 — a move that Trump called foolish.

The 51-mile (82-kilometer) canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is a major strategic asset, and has been a choke point for global trade as Panama has suffered a prolonged drought that has impeded crossings.

Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, arrived in Panama on Saturday for the start of a six-day trip that will also take him to El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

Rubio’s visit to the canal — his first foreign trip as the top US diplomat came a day after Trump announced 25% tariffs for Mexico and Canada that will take effect on Tuesday, as well as 10% tariff on China.

It also comes amid a push by Trump to muscle Latin American countries to receive deportees from the US, many from Central America. A dispute with Colombian President Gustavo Petro last week resulted in the threat of tariffs on one of the US’s strongest regional allies.

Read more: Rubio Brings a Tough Trump Message to Latin America

The trip is designed to build partnerships with countries in the region to curb mass migration, lay the ground for deportations, and stop drug trafficking, Rubio said in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week. He placed the trip, and greater attention to nations located geographically closer to the US, within Trump’s promise to “put America first.”

It’s the first time the region has been chosen for a top US diplomatic envoy’s maiden trip in more than a century. Secretaries typically visit allies like Japan or Germany, while Rubio’s predecessor, Antony Blinken, spent several trips over the past year focused on the wars in Europe and the Middle East.

— With assistance from Michael D McDonald and Nicolle Yapur

这傻逼。。

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ban or sell

兼并Panama,UA就可以有一个西南hub了

难怪Scott Kirby这么开心

干脆入侵巴拿马得了,以前又不是没干过,而且运河本身就是一道天然的墙,沿运河设防就可以直接卡住所有的北上走线路径

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巴拿马本来就是美国扶持的傀儡国家,如果不是美国为了方便控制巴拿马运河巴拿马就不会从哥伦比亚分裂出去。

类比一下美国为了封锁共产中国在台湾海峡巡航保护撤到台湾的民国政权,后来发现芯片涉及national security就威逼利诱台积电赴美设厂然后要给台湾芯片产业加关税。

把对方玩了不给钱不给名分反而还要对方掏钱,渣男啊。

巴拿马总统答应不参加一带一路了 :yaoming:

这标题今天被顶上来好几次,每次我都看成奥巴马 :yaoming:

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卢比称东大对运河的影响。

细品水姐说的确实没毛病。

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走线都是穿过大连地峡后直接坐船到墨西哥了

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我没记错的话这届巴拿马政府是不是更亲美来着

那么问题来了,公开的不算,他们私下开会的时候卢比奥用西班牙语还是用翻译

COPA: 我又变成UA小马甲啦 :clown_face: