President-elect Donald Trump threatens to demand the Panama Canal’s return to the US due to increased usage fees imposed by Panama. However, experts emphasize that reasserting control over the canal, ceded to Panama in 1999 under treaties, is legally and practically impossible without military action.
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A history of the Panama Canal – and why Trump can’t take it back on his own
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