Politico reports:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit Panama — the country whose canal President Donald Trump has suggested he’d seize — as early as next week, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the plan.
The trip is expected to be Rubio’s first foreign travel as secretary of State, said one former official who was also briefed on the plan. Panamanian officials have bristled at Trump’s comments on the strategically important waterway.
“The Panama Canal belongs to Panama and will continue to belong to Panama,” Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. “The Panama Canal is not a concession or a gift from the United States.”
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