NEWS: Panama president rules out talks with Trump over canal threat

Panama president rules out talks with Trump over canal threat

A cargo ship passes through the Miraflores locks on the Panama Canal.
Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP/File
Source: AFP

Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday ruled out negotiations with Donald Trump over control of the Panama Canal, which the US president-elect threatened to demand be returned to Washington.

Mulino also rejected the possibility of reducing canal tolls for US vessels, and denied that China had any influence over the vital waterway connecting the Atlantic and…

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