8Photo© hindustantimes.comDonald Trump Refuses To Rule Out Military Action Over Panama Canal, Greenland
Washington, Jan 8 (PTI): US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday did not rule out the use of the military to bring Panama Canal and Greenland under American control, which he argued is of great economic and strategic significance to the United States.
“I’m not going to commit to that. Now it might be that you’ll have to do something,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. He was asked if he would use the military to gain control of both the Panama Canal and Greenland.
“Look, the Panama Canal is vital to our country, it’s being operated by China, China. And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama, we didn’t give it to China,” Trump said. Giving the Panama Canal to Panama in just one dollar by the former president Jimmy Carter, he argued, was a very big mistake.