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The Panama Canal was not a gift from the United States, President Jose Raul Mulino said Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump threatened to take it back.
"We reject in its entirety everything that Mr Trump has said. First because it is false and second because the Panama Canal belongs to Panama and will continue to belong to Panama," Mulino said during a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Trump, in his inaugural address Monday, repeated his accusation that China was "operating" the Panama Canal through its growing presence around the waterway.
“ We didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back,
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“ American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal,
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