Panama’s president has said that he instructed the country’s foreign minister to not discuss the U.S. government’s allegations of Chinese interference in the operations of the Panama Canal with the visiting head of U.

Frequent droughts have pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river to save the waterway — an act that would flood the homes of thousands of people.

The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.

Hundreds of migrants, many from the Middle East and China, are in custody in Panama after they were deported from the U.S. as part of an agreement between the two nations. Held in a hotel in Panama City,

The people in question are from Iran, Afghanistan, China, and other garden spots. Their main offense seems to be that they were here. That they’ve ended up in Panama is no accident.

Beijing and Washington are also at loggerheads over another waterway in the Americas: the Panama Canal. Trump said China has gained control over the canal—a claim both Panama City and Beijing have denied.

The U.S. has deported more than 400 migrants — from nations as far as China and Vietnam — to Panama and Costa Rica, leaving them in legal limbo.

image And an extension to the Panama City Metro which will run under the south end of the canal is being built by the China Railway Tunnel Group Company. A map of the Panama Canal highlights the ...

PANAMA CITY — Panama’s president said Thursday ... It called allegations by the Trump administration that China controls the canal “pure lies.” It accused the U.S. government of trying ...