MAGA!

P. O. Panda, and I don’t mean post office!

Thank God Almighty for President Trump!

The UniParty has spent decades snuggling up to their OligarchWhore lobbyists and they have ignored the hemispheric threat of the Communist Chinese.

Derelicts & thieves.

Winning!

I am so gratified!

Shortly after PDJT was elected…I started squawking here and sent a few email later on, to the WH….am sure other Canal Zone Brats, did too…

I like to think that our voices were heard, as that Chinese creeping had been going on for a while…and a side note….there were, back in my days there…many Chinese restaurants in Panama City…many…am talking 1970’s…Retroactive Coincidence?

Sad panda

“Now, Panama has taken over.”

BOOM!!!

Now it’s time to remove the corruption and remove the NGOs and UN from the old Army base along the canal in Panama and staff it with military again.

Well played Mr. President! This is a HUUGE win for America and a crushing defeat for the Chinese Communists and their bought and paid for assets in the UniParty.

May God continue to bless and protect President Trump, his family and his loyal allies.

How can they “seize control” of a canal they already own? lol Al Jazeera

At least they are admitting that Trump is right and China had taken over the strategic asset.

Hallelujah!

Retired Magistrate here: Make Panama Great Again!

Why is a foreign company still administrating. Why discuss who should run the canal? USA, by default, should be in charge with Panamanian partnership.

Wonder what effect President Trump’s interdiction in Venezuela on January 3rd had on Panama’s Supreme Court? Just wondering?

Is Denmark going to be in control of both the canal and Greenland?

Poor Panda, losing again to President Trump!

Now maybe we can get the US back from China.

Denmark. Huh. Now they can send UK, French, and German NATO forces to defend it.

And if nothing else, we did this for fun…still have the scars on my rear…from 1975…

LOL, the big sad is funny.
It’s “unlawful” despite being ruled upon by the Panamanian Supreme Court. They’ve “started arbitration proceedings”. This “unlawful” nonsense on the international scale is just ridiculous. A country will do what they have the will to do, and ultimately the enforcement mechanisms internationally are either economic or military. If Panama has our backing, they have both those things covered in spades.

Just like bombing narco-terrorist ships is “unlawful”.

“They have made their ruling — now let them enforce it.” Truth bomb on the pretenses of the political class.

Seems the only countries who have no brains to listen to President Trump is our own and those pretended allies money suckers.

The war being waged against us by China and more so by the elite, soulless whores is an unrestricted one. This was one small battle we won. The war continues. In the end Jesus reigns.

Isn’t it amazing how courts all over the world can just decide things and make it so in ways which only dictators could otherwise accomplish?

I always felt it was a tragedy when the USA GAVE the Panama Canal away. It would have been better for Panama and the surrounding area if the USA had kept ownership. USA ownership would have meant a well run operation, a USA government and military footprint that would have brought more money and stability to the area.

Be thankful for a wise president of Panama.
He is rolling with the punches and keeping a low key responsible position. Panama does not want any issues with PDJT.

Interesting that temporary operations was given to a Danish company what with the negotiations around Greenland.

Right on!

Let us see if danish are suffering with TDS, too.

I am not sure that Denmark is more friendly than China. Less dangerous because they are pathetic.

Oh well CCP. You’re infringing on the USA and the other nations in this hemisphere and we aren’t going to allow it. Trade if you want but control never.

One should never forget the American President who gave away the canal! Jimmy, the peanut farmer, who was the first Obama. David Rockefeller’s hand picked puppet.

I sincerely hope that this news is a major disappointment to Cocaine Mitch McConnell and his Chinese wife /handler!

This is not over yet. Panama seems to have agreed to arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce.

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is involved. The ICC is underwritten by the financial and trade offices of the UN and is located in Paris, France.

International Chamber of Commerce – Wikipedia

John W.H. Denton AO is the current Secretary General of the ICC. Harvard background, which is NOT good as he has all the Harvard associated Globalist Tickets punched. He is also affiliated with the office of UN Trade and Development.

The mechanism sponsored by the ICC to resolve arbitration is the International Court of Arbitration.

Will Panama abide by the International Court of Arbitration’s finding is the BIG QUESTION.

International Court of Arbitration – Wikipedia

The UN, which underwrites the ICC, is not exactly on good terms with President Trump but the UN is ON GOOD terms with the Uni-Party in the US Congress … which means resistance from Congress before this is resolved.

and yet again, once trump leaves, all of this will be undone

China financed bigger locks on each side of the canal to handle bigger cargo ships. Are these considered part of the ports?

Well, getting rid of China is a definitely plus. As for the Danish, they make great pastries.

James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 and a Founding Father. He issued the Monroe Doctrine which was a policy of limiting European Chinese colonialism in the Americas. 

One Carter disaster down.

One to go.

The Chinese have been well known for many centuries for piracy and intrigue.; it is essentially in their cultural DNA.

It is exactly what should be expected of the Chinese.

All should be advised accordingly.

Poor Panda 🐼 has The SADS.
LOLOL 🤣🤣🤣😜😜

This is great news. Trump is doing wonderful and outstanding things internationally! Most of thesethings only require executive branch decisions. Domestically, where the pres needs the cooperation of congress much more, success has been poor. Unless the liberal establishment is toppled during trumps presidency none of the intl accomplshments will matter. The goal isnt to win the ai race,the trade race, and control of energy supplies and the w. Hemisphere only to hand that power to the marxist progressives who still control america. The clock is ticking

TR and the Panama Canal | American Experience | Official Site | PBS:

“… In 1881, the French recorded about 60 deaths from disease. In 1882, the number doubled. The following year, 420 died. Malaria and yellow fever were the most common killers. Because the company often fired sick men to reduce medical costs, the numbers probably reflect low estimates. Believing the fumes from rotting vegetation caused the disease, doctors at the French hospital at Ancon advised workers to avoid the night air. Only after thousands of deaths would the cause be attributed to virus-carrying mosquitoes.

Three out of four men hospitalized at Ancon died, despite the massive investments that made the hospital among the finest in the tropical world. In no small manner was this hastened by the architecture of the hospital gardens. To protect the potted plants from attack by ants, gardeners had set the pots in pottery bowls filled with water. Disease-carrying mosquitoes multiplied in these reservoirs by the million and carried their deadly cargo through the screenless windows of the hospital each night.

Year after year, the digging-and the dying-continued. As the toll mounted, so did discontent. French investors grumbled at the lack of progress. In the page’s of Harper’s Weekly, American cartoonist Thomas Nast caricatured de Lesseps, wondering “Is M. de Lesseps a Canal Digger or a Grave Digger?”

When the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique failed in December, 1888, thousands of French investors lost their money. The word Panama quickly became synonymous with scandal and fraud. About $287 million had been spent. Fifty million cubic meters of earth and rock had been moved. Eleven miles of canal had been dug. Twenty thousand men had died. The canal remained unfinished, but the dream had not yet ended. Theodore Roosevelt would soon take up the cause.

Shortly after ascending to the presidency, Roosevelt spoke of the Panama Canal in a speech to Congress. “No single great material work which remains to be undertaken on this continent,” Roosevelt said, “is as of such consequence to the American people.”

Roosevelt acted quickly. In 1902, the United States reached an agreement to buy rights to the French canal property and equipment for a sum not to exceed $40 million. The U.S. then began negotiating a Panama treaty with Colombia. The U.S Department of War would direct excavation. Many, both in the press and in the public, sensed a scandal, or, worse yet, good money thrown after bad.

In the New York Journal, William Randolph Hearst opined that “the only way we could secure a satisfactory concession from Colombia would be to go down there, take the contending statesmen by the necks, and hold a batch of them in office long enough to get a contract in mind.” Hearst’s statement proved prophetic.

When Colombia grew reticent in its negotiations, Roosevelt and Panamanian business interests collaborated on a revolution. The battle for Panama lasted only a few hours. Colombian soldiers in Colón were bribed $50 each to lay down their arms; the U.S.S. Nashville cruised off the Panamanian coast in a show of support. On November 3, 1903, the nation of Panama was born.

The U.S quickly assumed parental interest. Americans had written the Panamanian Constitution in advance; the wife of pro-canal lobbyist Phillipe Bunau-Varilla had sewn the country’s first flag. A payment of $10 million secured a canal zone and rights to build. Bunau-Varilla, installed as Panamanian minister to the U.S., signed a treaty favorable to American interests. The $40 million given to J.P Morgan for distribution to French stockholders disappeared amid rumors of larcenous speculation.

1904, the Americans’ first year in Panama, mirrored the French disaster. The chief engineer, John Findlay Wallace, neglected to organize the effort or to develop an action plan. The food was putrid, the living conditions abysmal. Political red tape put a stranglehold on appropriations. Disease struck, and three out of four Americans booked passage home. Engineer Wallace soon followed. The Americans had poured $128 million into the swamps of Panama, to damned little effect.

The arrival of Wallace’s replacement, the rugged and ingenious John Stevens, marked a turn in fortunes for the beleaguered canal. Stevens had built the Great Northern Railroad across the Pacific Northwest. In rough territory from Canada to Mexico, he had proven his tenacity. And his new plan of action would ultimately save the canal.

The kind of work that needed done, Steven reasoned, could only be done by a well-housed, well-fed, disease-free labor force. Stevens began work not by not digging, but by cleaning.

Dr. William Gorgas, who had helped to eradicate yellow fever in Havana years before by killing the mosquitoes that carried it, directed sanitation efforts. Workers drained swamps, swept drainage ditches, paved roads and installed plumbing. They sprayed pesticides by the ton. Entire towns rose from the jungle, complete with housing, schools, churches, commissaries, and social halls.

The canal’s engineering also changed. After nine months of Capitol Hill lobbying, the push for a “lake and lock” canal, favored by Roosevelt, succeeded. Stevens would dam the mighty Chagres to create the vast Gatun Lake in Panama’s interior. A series of locks would raise ships from the Atlantic side to the level of the lake. The boats would cross the lake, then descend by another set of locks to the Pacific. Ironically, the plan was nearly identical to one proposed by the French engineer Godin de Lépinay in 1879, at the same meeting in which M. de Lesseps promoted his sea-level plan.

With sanitation efforts complete, Stevens began work on a scale never before witnessed. Gigantic Bucyrus steam shovels scooped tons of earth. Railroad cars ran continuously on a double track, dumping the tailings to form the Charges dam.

By December 1905, yellow fever had been officially eradicated on the Isthmus. In November, 1906, Roosevelt himself visited the canal, posing at the controls of a Bucyrus shovel. It seemed that the project could not fail. Then, on February 12, 1907, a dispirited Chief Engineer Stevens resigned.

Colonel George Washington Goethals, an Army engineer with experience building lock-type canals, assumed the Chief Engineer’s post. Demanding and rigidly organized, Goethals quickly picked up where Stevens left off.

Nowhere were efforts more dramatic than at the Culebra Cut, where 100,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock would have to be removed. The laborers at Culebra — mostly English-speaking West Indian blacks who made ten cents an hour — moved as much as 200 trainloads of spoil a day. When mudslides filled the Cut repeatedly, Goethals simply ordered it dug out again. There were accidents of all sorts, lost equipment, and deaths, but there was progress.

At the Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side, workers poured enough concrete to build a wall 8′ wide, 12′ high, and 133 miles long. They built culverts the size of railroad tunnels to channel water from Gatun Lake into the locks. Pittsburgh’s furnaces roared as more than 50 mills, foundries, and machine shops churned out the rivets, bolts, nut, girders, and other steel pieces the canal builders needed.

In May, 1913, steam shovels broke through the Culebra Cut, and the last cement was poured at the Gatun locks. The Chagres filled Gatun Lake, and engineers prepared for the canal’s first trial run. It came on September 26. The tugboat Gatun traveled through the first set of locks and out onto the lake. The locks worked flawlessly. After nine years, the end was at last in sight.

The Panama Canal opened officially on August 15, 1914. The world scarcely noticed. German troops were driving across Belgium toward Paris; the newspapers relegated Panama to their back pages. The greatest engineering project in the history of the world had been dwarfed by the totality of World War I.” …….

Wait a minute! Denmark controls the Panama Canal but they squeal about US control of Greenland?

Make it make sense

International Chamber of Commerce.

Such a vile concept when you consider the subversion of the US Chamber of Commerce by the Chinese. I hope to see a day both are forgotten.

Yes, President Trump was instrumental in this situation, but we should also recognize Marco Rubio. Rubio, with his intelligence and his ability to speak Spanish, has been instrumental in negotiations and relationships, particularly in the Americas.

This Jimmy Carter mistake has been solved.

Another international mistake by Carter may be solved soon. I hope IF it happens, there is a reduced loss of life and a positive outcome for the Persian people.

So they took it from the ChiComs and gave it to the EuComs.

What’s different?

I grew up in the Canal Zone in the 1970s. My dad worked for the DoD. Panama is such a great place I hope you all visit it. The use the USD and you can drink the water because we built it for them. The canal is the most impressive thing you will ever see if you understand engineering, the sacrifice and the nautical challenge of going through it.

I cannot even fathom how we allowed China to get its hooks into Panama. ALL OF OUR ambassadors and spy agencies need to be rebuked for allowing this to happen over a period of many administrations. This is embarrassing that we needed to do this.

I am dancing a jig!

How did Blackrock get involved?
https://apnews.com/article/panama-canal-port-court-ruling-ck-hutchison-110af98b3782a08c242ecb5edb512614