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Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to escalate the Trump administrationfs confrontation with Panama on Sunday, telling its leader that President Trump had determined that Chinese ginfluence and controlh over the Panama Canal threatens the waterway and demanding gimmediate changes,h according to the State Department.
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Panamafs president, Jose Raul Mulino, provided a different account of the discussion, saying after the meeting that he did not believe Mr. Rubio had conveyed a threat that Mr. Trump might move to reclaim the American-built shipping route. He said he saw little risk of such an intervention.
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But President Trump, speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland about the canal on Sunday, said that gwefre going to take it back, or something very powerful is going to happen.h
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The State Departmentfs summary of the meeting in Panama City, Mr. Rubiofs first with a foreign leader since becoming secretary of state, struck a tone that was sometimes aggressive. It said Mr. Rubio had told his host that Mr. Trump had made a gpreliminary determinationh that Chinafs government exercised control over the canal.
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