Thanks to deregulatory, laissez faire maritime policy, the U.S. has abandoned the oceans, allowing China and foreign shipping corporations full control over our channels of commerce.

Retired Colonel Rob Maness lauds President Donald Trump for booting China from the Panama Canal and negotiating control back to the United States. Maness says the foreign policy move projects US power in both Latin America and the Indo-Pacific region.

In this episode on Tekniq, we scrutinize the entire operation of the Panama Canal, followed by the operations of transporting ships using a vertical lift in China.

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.

Data from Project44 suggests that transit times appear to reflect the efficiency of individual ocean carriers rather than any form of favoritism.