In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet to the Panamanian government-threatening to retake the canal, by force if ...

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and how does that ripple out to the global economy?

Thanks to deregulatory, laissez faire maritime policy, the U.S. has abandoned the oceans, allowing China and foreign shipping ...

Panama became the first Latin American country to officially join China's Belt and Road Initiative. It leaves at a time Trump ...

A showdown is building between Communist China and the West. From rising tensions over Taiwan, trade, TikTok, fentanyl, ...

A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by ...