The Panama Canal is one of the most important waterways on Earth because it connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and massively shortens shipping routes. Before it existed, ships traveling between ...

The scale of China’s involvement in overseas ports has fueled debate over whether these investments are purely commercial or serve broader strategic goals.

By Alek Buttermann in Berlin The abrupt suspension of services by China's state-owned shipping giant COSCO at the Pacific-side port of Balboa marks the most visible commercial reaction yet to Panama's ...

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