Panama Canal
A Better Way To Handle The Panama Canal
Trump and his team are right to recognize Panama’s strategic importance, but they are wrong in how they are approaching the issue. During his inaugural address in January, President Trump...
Starving the Dragon: Toward An America-First China Strategy
China began 2025 by escalating its economic conflict with the United States, further intensifying the ongoing trade war. In anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump’s entry into the Oval Office, a...
Donald Trump Is Right: The Panama Canal Should Be American
President-elect Donald Trump’s recent lament that the United States ceded control of the Panama Canal to Panama under the Carter administration is both strategically sound and historically resonant. Trump, the...
Iran’s Game in South America: A Nuclear Card or Another Bluff?
Following the inauguration of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília, Iran announced that it would send two of its warships to the South American country. The Russian...
Mystery: Why Canada is Shipping Oil to Itself Through the Panama Canal
On July 20, the tanker Cabo de Hornos delivered an estimated 450,000 barrels of crude oil to the Irving Oil refinery’s Canaport storage facilities in Saint John, N.B. What made...
Panama Has Ditched Taiwan. Here’s Why It Matters for America.
Last week’s sudden announcement by Panamanian president Juan Carlos Varela that Panama would henceforth be shifting its diplomatic relations from Taiwan to mainland China was not entirely unexpected in Taipei....