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Trump ‘bullying’ Panama over canal: Townsend
AlArabiya English
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12/24/2024
The transit fees for the Panama Canal should be negotiated peacefully, not through threats, former Deputy Secretary of State for Defense Jims Townsend says.
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A huge diplomatic row brewing and Trump has not assumed office yet.
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What do you make of his threats regarding the Panama Canal?
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Well, you're right in the sense that he's not even the president yet.
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We have a president, it's Joe Biden, and this is not something that the U.S. administration
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has been worried about.
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This is something that now Trump is taking on, and it's really he's posturing and he's
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bullying, quite frankly, in a very undiplomatic way, but we've got to get used to that.
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But he's bullying the Panamanians about these transit fees.
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But as your report points out, it's not just us, it's the Japanese, it's the Chileans,
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Chinese, others pay this transit fee, and we should all come together and go negotiate
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something with the Panamanians if there's an issue here.
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We shouldn't take out a baseball bat and begin to bully them.
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That's not the way to start negotiations.
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