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Panama’s Mulino meets US Secretary of State Rubio after Trump canal threat

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio deplanes at the international airport in Panama Pacifico, Panama, February 1 [Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via Reuters]

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panama’s president that his country must limit what Washington calls Chinese influence over the Panama Canal area or the Trump administration would take “measures necessary” to do so.

Rubio kicked off his first official foreign trip on Sunday with a stop in Panama, a longtime US ally shaken by President Donald Trump’s extraordinary threat to seize the Panama Canal.

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