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[SanWenYu]

Wasn't China discussing with another Central American country in building a better alternative to the Panama Canal? The Panama Canal can't accommodate more modern container ships.

That was Nicaragua.

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who was selling the idea is now considered a fraudster by many. He seems to be on the radar of the authorities in China lately.

2023年4月，王靖因涉嫌违反证券法律法规被证监会立案调查 [9-12]。
2021年5月25日

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做出如下纪律处分决定：对

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、公司实际控制人暨时任董事长兼总经理王靖予以公开谴责；并公开认定实际控制人暨时任董事长兼总经理王靖10年内不适合担任上市公司董事、

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和高级管理人员。 [3]
2019年9月，信威集团王靖所持7000万股股票质押违约 [8]

 

[Wrought]

MAGA wingnuts on X now crowing that mighty USA managed to bully the tiny nation of Panama into leaving some investment agreements with China.

Scrapping the nonbinding MoU is purely symbolic, especially when done under blatant coercion. Beijing is doubtless more than happy about the hit to US soft power in exchange.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1886194266919084186

If the US is willing to

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, then they will make real progress (just the same as before today).

President Raúl Mulino added however that Panama would not renew a 2017 memorandum of understanding to join China’s overseas development initiative, known as the

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, and suggested that the deal with China could end early.

Panama will seek to work with the US on new investments, including infrastructure projects, he said. “I think this visit opens the door to build new relations … and try to increase as much as possible US investments in Panama,” Mulino told reporters on Sunday after Rubio’s first foreign trip as the United States’ top diplomat.

If not, well, there's always Chinese money (which often, but not always, comes under the BRI label).