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"Panamanian president José Raúl Mulino said his country would not renew its agreement with China's Belt and Road Initiative following a visit from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a move that will make it the first Latin American country to leave the initiative.
Mulino, speaking to reporters on Sunday after Rubio's first foreign trip as America's top diplomat, said he believes the agreement is due for renewal in a year or two. He said he would study "whether it can be finished earlier or not."
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Panama was the first Latin American nation to join the Belt and Road Initiative and now becomes the first to back away from it. ...".
Excellent work, Sec. Rubio!
Next up in the not-too-distant future, perhaps something needs to be done about this Darien Gap place that straddles the border between Panama and another country that was in the news a few days ago: Colombia.
I must say, the 21st-century version of the Monroe Doctrine is taking shape with bracing speed.
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I think the Panamanians like it. They don't seem to like Colombians even though they used to be Colombians, or perhaps because of it.
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Do you mean that the Panamanians like the Darien Gap as some sort of geographical "buffer" between themselves and Colombia?
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Precisely.
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Interesting.
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