{"id":147302,"date":"2025-01-22T14:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat"},"modified":"2025-01-31T21:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:35:33","slug":"panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat","title":{"rendered":"Panama Canal not a gift from US \u2013 Jose Mulino hits back at Trump\u2019s threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Panama President, Jose Raul Mulino, on Wednesday, hit back at US President Donald Trump\u2019s threats of taking back a key trade route, the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trump said during his inaugural address that China was \u2018operating\u2019 the Panama Canal via its growing presence around the waterway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not give it to China, we gave it to Panama. And we are taking it back,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Mulino said the Panama Canal wasn\u2019t a gift from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke during a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mulino said, \u201cWe reject in its entirety everything that Mr Trump has said. First because it is false and second because the Panama Canal belongs to Panama and will continue to belong to Panama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Panama Canal wasn\u2019t a concession or a gift from the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The canal was inaugurated back in 1914 and was built by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was handed to Panama on December 31, 1999, under treaties signed some two decades earlier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Panama President, Jose Raul Mulino, on Wednesday, hit back at US President Donald Trump\u2019s threats of taking back a key trade route, the Panama Canal. On Monday, Trump said during his inaugural address that China was \u2018operating\u2019 the Panama Canal via its growing presence around the waterway. \u201cWe did not give it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":147301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[15607,254,15606,1030,373],"class_list":["post-147302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-jose-mulino","tag-nigeria","tag-panama-canal","tag-trump","tag-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Panama Canal not a gift from US \u2013 Jose Mulino hits back at Trump\u2019s threat - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Panama President, Jose Raul Mulino, on Wednesday, hit back at US President Donald Trump\u2019s threats of taking back a key t ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Panama Canal not a gift from US \u2013 Jose Mulino hits back at Trump\u2019s threat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Panama President, Jose Raul Mulino, on Wednesday, hit back at US President Donald Trump\u2019s threats of taking back a key t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-22T13:52:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-31T20:35:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737545649.112806.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1031\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Panama Canal not a gift from US \u2013 Jose Mulino hits back at Trump\u2019s threat\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-22T13:52:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-31T20:35:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat\"},\"wordCount\":200,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737545649.112806.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Jose Mulino\",\"Nigeria\",\"Panama Canal\",\"Trump\",\"US\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/panama-canal-not-a-gift-from-us-jose-mulino-hits-back-at-trumps-threat\",\"name\":\"Panama Canal not a gift from US \u2013 Jose Mulino hits back at Trump\u2019s threat - 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