How Panama issue crystallizes the geopolitical balance

Port of Balboa in Panama / Photo: Hutchison Ports PPC

Washington forced China out of Balboa and Cristóbal. Beijing has weaponised commercial flows, summoned the world’s two largest carriers, and positioned itself to extract a better deal on 41 ports it never had to fight for.

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