The US president claimed yesterday to allow US ships – military and commercial – the free crossing by his canal and him.
“I have asked Foreign Minister Marco Rubio to take care of it immediately,” Trump wrote in a post on the Truth Social platform.
After repeating the US for months for the US to take control of the Panama Canal, the US president is now putting the Suez Canal and the Suez Canal, another strategic path to world trade.
Their story
The Panama Canal is an artificial channel that allows ships to move faster between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean. About 40% of US containers pass through the Panama Canal each year.
The US, who made the canal, handed over Panama in 1999. But after his return to the White House, Trump has threatened to regain control, without excluding the use of force, with the excuse that he is under the control of Beijing.
In early April, the US was licensed by Panama to develop military force around the canal.
The Suez Canal, which has been controlled by Egypt since 1956, served about 10% of the world maritime trade until Yemen’s Houthi rebels began to launch attacks on ships, claiming to be acting in solidarity with “solidarity”.
US Armed Forces and allies intervened in an effort to safeguard the security of international navigation. However, many companies have chosen to bypass this sea route and make the round of Africa, drastically reducing a vital source of currency for Egypt, which has plunged into the worst economic crisis in its history.
