BEIJING – China on Friday said it “regrets” Panama’s decision to withdraw from Beijing’s Belt and Road infrastructure program after the Latin American
nation ended its participation in the project in a concession to Washington.
Around 40 percent of US container traffic passes through the narrow body of water linking the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. The country’s President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday confirmed that Panama had pulled out of the Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure program.
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