REPORT: Panama Canal Now Under AMERICAN CONTROL * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Joshua C.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Just a few hours before President Trump is set to address a full session of Congress, news has come that one of his top priorities has been achieved.
61% : I'm giving President Trump the win on this one.
58% : We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back," said Trump during his inaugural address.
55% : While I'm exceedingly suspicious of BlackRock, I am chalking this up as a win for President Trump, and America.
48% : In a stunning development, with no shots fired and no military operations needed, the Chinese company that runs the Panama Canal, CK Hutchinson, announced it is selling its controlling stake according to CNN: Trump said several times during the lead-up to his inauguration and since taking office that he intends to "take back" the Panama Canal from Panama, which took over control of the crucial international waterway in 1999 under a treaty negotiated with the United States 20 years earlier.
47% : While not directly financially linked to the Chinese government, Hong Kong-based companies remain subject to state oversight.
41% : Even in December of last year, just a few weeks after winning the election, President Trump was hammering the topic on a constant basis.
40% : At a January press conference ahead of his inauguration, Trump would not rule out using either military force or economic coercion to take control of the canal once again.
40% : The 51-mile canal is a key to both the movement of international trade and US military vessels.
34% : " Back in January, President Trump was asked if he would rule out using military or economic pressure to take the Canal (and Greenland, for that matter).

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