Panama Canal issue will go away

AlArabiya English

Once Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino rejects US President-elect Donald Trump’s demands regarding the Canal in a conversation, the issue will “evaporate,” former Assistant Secretary of State PJ Crowley says.   #Trump #PanamaCanal

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00:00OK, so what happens next with regards to Panama?

00:02And then I'll ask you a couple of questions

00:03about some of the other territories

00:04that we're interested in as well.

00:05But I mean, with regards to Panama,

00:07the president of the country who we've agreed

00:09is very pro-American, President José Raúl Molina,

00:14says the canal will remain in Panamanian hands.

00:18So what happens next?

00:19Do you envisage negotiations, some sort of talks?

00:22Well, I mean, let's draw a lesson

00:25from the first Trump term.

00:27We remember in 2016, he said, we'll build a great wall

00:32and Mexico would pay for it.

00:34And in the first phone call that he had

00:36with the Mexican president, the Mexican president said,

00:39I can't do that.

00:42And the issue went away.

00:44No doubt, whenever Donald Trump speaks

00:47with the president of Panama, he'll bring it up.

00:50The Panamanian side will say, hey, it's not yours

00:55to determine, it's ours.

00:56And the issue will evaporate.

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