Thanks to deregulatory, laissez faire maritime policy, the U.S. has abandoned the oceans, allowing China and foreign shipping corporations full control over our channels of commerce.

Retired Colonel Rob Maness lauds President Donald Trump for booting China from the Panama Canal and negotiating control back to the United States. Maness says the foreign policy move projects US power in both Latin America and the Indo-Pacific region.

Fox Nation's "Showdown at the Panama Canal" explores the history of the vital strategic waterway and the current high-stakes battle to reclaim control.

Data from Project44 suggests that transit times appear to reflect the efficiency of individual ocean carriers rather than any form of favoritism.

Frequent droughts have pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river to save the waterway — an act that would flood the homes of thousands of people.

Panama’s president has said that he instructed the country’s foreign minister to not discuss the U.S. government’s allegations of Chinese interference in the operations of the Panama Canal with the visiting head of U.

Panama and China have hit back at American claims about Beijing's influence over the Panama Canal, saying they were "lies". US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants the US to regain control of the canal and this week US Southern Command head Alvin Holsey visited the Central American nation to step up the pressure.

Panama succumbed in 2017. The threat to U.S. national security is obvious: in an international crisis or conflict involving the U.S. or its allies, China could close the canal and prevent the U.S ...