Foreign Minister Marco Rubio warns the President of Panama against the Chinese influence on the Panama channel

Foreign Ministry spokesman Tami Bruce said in a reading of his reading that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio met President Jose Raul Mulino in Panama during the weekend.

Rubio Mulino told President Donald Trump’s concern about the Chinese influence on Panama and that Rubio “made it clear that this current situation is unacceptable and that in the absence of immediate changes, the United States will require necessary measures to protect its rights under the treaty,” according to Bruce.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request to comment on whether the “necessary measures” might include military force.

At a press conference in Mar-A-Laggo during the presidential transition period, Trump did not rule out the use of military force to control the Panama and Greenland channel, which was identified by two of his goals for his second period.

Molo It was previously denied China has a channel control. The channel is governed and run by the Panama Channel Authority.

The channel used to be owned and managed by the United States, but slowly conveyed control to Panama in the late twentieth century, which led to the fully launched its grip on the channel by 1999.

One of the treaties that governs this transition guarantees that the United States can interfere in the canal authority if the Americans feel that there is A threat to the channel working with neutrality.

In reading the Rubio meeting with Molino, Bruce wrote that Rubio confirmed Molino that Trump “has taken a preliminary decision that the current position of influencing and controlling the Chinese Communist Party on the Panama Canal region is a threat to the channel and represents a violation of the treaty.”

“We presented the Panama channel to Panama. We did not present it to China. They have offended this gift,” Trump said at a press conference in early January in Mar Lago.

In the aftermath of the meeting with Rubio, Mulino said during a press conference on Sunday that Panama is looking to end her involvement with the Silk Road initiative in China early, and said that whether the country is able to end the agreement early or not, it will not renew an agreement when it ends in A few years. The initiative is the cornerstone of China’s foreign policy.

“The Memorandum of Understanding 2017 will not be renewed on the Belt and Road Initiative, Silk Road, by my government,” Mulino said in Spanish.

National Security Adviser Mike Walz Celebrate Mulino’s announcement, describing it as a “step in the right direction.”

The Rubio meeting with the President of Panama touched on a set of additional issues, including the immigration crisis that currently faces America and Latin America, which improved the country’s investment in a climate and support of Molino for free and democratic, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.