When Panama signed up for China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative in 2017 ... that Beijing has used to win friends and expand its global influence. Five years later, Panama will be the first ...

the US might target countries that are part of the Belt and Road Initiative or other frameworks involving China, such as Brics, as Washington sought to safeguard its position as a global power and ...

CHINA is opposed to US “smearing and sabotage” of the Belt and Road Initiative in Panama through “pressure and coercion”, its foreign ministry said on Friday (Feb 7), after the South American nation ...

President Xi Jinping launched its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure and economic development strategy, in 2013. As of February 2025, between 145 and 149 countries have ...

Panama has become the first Latin American nation to exit Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative, marking a significant shift in its foreign policy and relationship with China's global infrastructure ...

could allow China to fill the resultant gap under the aegis of its Belt and Road Initiative, analysts said. The 12-year-old initiative provides low-interest loans for highways, ports and power ...

which handles five per cent of global maritime trade. The country's President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday confirmed that Panama had pulled out of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure ...

The president did say Panama would not be renewing its agreement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative when it expires. Panama joined the initiative, which promotes and funds infrastructure and ...

In 2024, China’s trade volume with partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative ... as a cultural initiative – an effort by China to project its soft power on the global stage.

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