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Panama begins audit of Hong Kong firm in nod to Donald Trump
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Panama begins audit of Hong Kong firm in nod to Donald Trump

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By Tycoon Herald 5 Min Read Published January 21, 2025
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Panama’s authorities on Monday started an audit of a Hong Kong firm that operates ports at both finish of its canal, after US President Donald Trump warned that he wished to take again the waterway over alleged Chinese language affect.

In his inauguration speech on Monday, Trump repeated criticisms he made in current weeks in regards to the Panama Canal, which handles about 3 per cent of worldwide seaborne commerce every year.

In response, Panama’s Workplace of the Comptroller Common revealed a video on social media platform X of about 10 women and men in fits submitting off a bus into the native workplaces of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Ports to start an audit, in a transfer seen as a nod to Trump.

“Today our auditors arrived at [the company] to start an exhaustive audit aimed at guaranteeing efficient and transparent use of public resources,” the comptroller normal’s workplace stated on X.

Hutchison Ports, the ports arm of Hong Kong-listed conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings, operates 53 ports in 24 international locations together with within the UK, Germany and Hong Kong.

It first gained the concessions to function two ports, one at every finish of the canal, in 1997, the 12 months that Hong Kong was returned to Chinese language rule by the UK. The concessions had been renewed in 2021.

Managed by the household of Li Ka-shing — one of many richest in Asia — CK Hutchison Holdings additionally operates an unlimited world infrastructure portfolio together with Northumbrian Water within the UK and the Australian Fuel Networks.

China doesn’t management the canal, however some officers in Washington are more and more involved about Chinese language firms’ presence within the space. Hong Kong’s authorities has develop into extra carefully aligned with China since a crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2019 and the introduction of powerful nationwide safety laws.

CK Hutchison didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Panama’s audit.

The US oversaw the constructing of the canal, which opened in 1914, however handed full management again to the Central American nation in 1999. Trump has known as the transfer a “mistake” and has decried the excessive charges.

Charges to cross the canal, which makes use of contemporary water to function its locks, have risen considerably since a serious drought in 2023 led to restrictions and later adjustments in how slots are assigned.

“We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should never have been made,” Trump stated. “We didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama and we’re taking it back.”

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Panama begins audit of Hong Kong firm in nod to Donald Trump

Panama has lengthy been one of many closest US allies in Central America and has been making an attempt to halt US-bound migration by means of its infamous Darién Hole. The nation reduce ties with Taiwan to recognise China throughout Trump’s first time period in 2017.

Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino — a legislation and order conservative — on Monday revealed a strongly worded assertion “wholly rejecting” Trump’s phrases and saying the canal would stay Panamanian.

He added that no nation was interfering with the canal’s administration and that dialogue was one of the best ways to resolve the problems Trump raised. He additionally disagreed with Trump’s characterisation of the US returning the canal to Panama.

“The canal wasn’t given by anyone, it was the result of a generational fight that culminated in 1999,” he wrote on X.

 

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