Thursday, January 9, 2025

Panama Canal chief rejects Trump's accusations of biased use of canal

(As more countries are talking to China about joining BRICS and the threat of the looming devaluation of the dollar hangs over his head, Trump figures we can take the canal and keep China or anyone in  BRICS from using it as a bludgeon to punish and threaten nation states to stay with us and our neoliberal ways. He also figures the added revenue will come in handy when he announces his historic tax break he is going to give Big Business and billionaires like himself and half of his cabinet.)

from al Mayadeen English

Ricaurte Vasquez Morales, head of the Panama Canal Authority, has rejected US President-elect Donald Trump's claims that China allegedly controls the canal and is increasing tariffs on US ships.

Vasquez Morales told The Wall Street Journal newspaper on Wednesday, "The accusations that China is running the Canal are unfounded. China has no involvement whatsoever in our operations. Rules are rules, and there are no exceptions. We cannot discriminate against the Chinese, the Americans, or anyone else. This will violate the neutrality treaty and international law, and it will lead to chaos."

The report stated that the average cost for ships to transit the canal is approximately $750,000, with fees ranging between $300,000 and $1 million.

Morales added, "They [tariffs] apply to all ships from around the world and there are no exceptions."...

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3 comments:

  1. 2day's laff.
    Agenda2030 psychotic eco-Tards and wacko geeks writ L-A-R-G-E!
    "Hybrid " eV oceanliners, using batteries of course but get this....for redundancy/backup, they will have SOLAR and some will have sails!!!
    AND they "plan" tohave mega-gigantic charging stations built/running at all ports of call, remember the battery pack would be 100- 1000 times the mass of even that in a big suv ev.
    H-F-S!
    Course, that in no way explains how they will imagineer away the fire risk, which would be far out at sea of course, plus the corrosive, CONDUCTIVE seawater.

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  2. More BS.
    With a super-metro pop of 7.5MM, the Big TO our biggest $hitty easily has more homeless by itself than this 80,000 number.
    Ontario has 14MM.
    Vancouver, the homeless "tent row" notorious Hasting Street been there for 40 years easy was 1 block long in 2019. Guy went back there just a week ago, just caught his vid, says it's now appx 9 blocks long uninterrupted, goes almost to Gsslight district now.

    Report: 80,000 people homeless in Ontario in 2024
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  3. Yeah, why E-lon, why!
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