Amid pressure from the US, Panama is first Latin American country to leave Beijing’s global infrastructure club.

China on lashed out at what it called U.S. “coercion” after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with ...

China is opposed to U.S. "smearing and sabotage" of the Belt and Road Initiative in Panama through "pressure and coercion", ...

In 2024, China’s trade volume with partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year, accounting for over half of China’s total trade volume for the ...

The Panamanian government had signed the agreement in 2017. Rubio had told President Mulino to reduce Chinese influence ...

Panama appears to have bowed to Donald Trump’s aggressive style of diplomacy by ditching its involvement in China’s Belt and ...