The Panama Canal Authority leader denied that China controls the waterway, warning President-elect Trump against ending the Neutrality Treaty.

Granting Trump's demand for US ships passing through the Panama Canal to get preferential treatment would "lead to chaos," the waterway's leader said.

GRANTING Donald Trump’s demand for US ships passing through the Panama Canal to get preferential treatment would “lead to chaos,” the head of the authority running the waterway said on Wednesday. Read more at The Business Times.

The canal executive said China doesn’t control route and U.S. ships can’t get better rates than others.

The Panama Canal Authority chief dismissed President-elect Trump’s claims that China is controlling the trade route and criticized his comments about fees. Ricaurte Vásquez Morales told The Wall Street Journal that Trump’s accusations that China is running the Panama Canal are “unfounded.

A Panamanian national holiday remembering the killing of 21 protesters by police and U.S. troops in 1964 is taking on new resonance this year as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatens to take bac

S.D., introduced the Panama Canal Repurchase Act, co-sponsored by 15 other House Republicans, amid President-elect Trump's concerns.

Panama rejected suggestions of Chinese influence over its canal and dismissed threats of possible US military action on January 7, after President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out force to regain control of the strategic waterway.