CORRECTED: Panama leader rejects Chinese threat over canal port ruling

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CORRECTED: Panama leader rejects Chinese threat over canal port ruling
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Panama City, Feb 4 (AFP) Feb 04, 2026
Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino on Wednesday rejected China's threat to make the Central American country pay a "heavy price" after a Hong Kong company was evicted from two ports on the Panama Canal.

Writing on X, Mulino "strongly" rejected the threat from the Beijing office overseeing affairs in semi-autonomous Hong Kong, which came after Panama's Supreme Court invalidated CK Hutchison's port concession.

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