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Exclusive: The Republican leadership of the house encourages the legislators to secure the president Donald Trumps The desire to return the Panama Canal to property suggests a new memo.
House’s GOP policy committee under the direction of Chairman Kevin Hern, R-Okla, the Republican of Republicans No. 5, sent the document to the legislative directors at the entire conference on Wednesday.
The two -sided memo entitled “Panama Canal” begins with the marking of Trump’s earlier comments China’s influence About the Panama Canal and its goal to “take it back”.
It was also found that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio will be visited on Panama as Trump’s top diplomat on his first trip.
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Split picture of Trump and the Panama Canal (Jim Watson/AFP, left, Arnulfo Franco/AFP, right.)
The next section describes the history of the United States and the Panama Canal established the Panama Canalzone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal. “
It also points out that it became under the late former President Jimmy Carter about the contracts criticized by Trump over the channel.
The contracts with Carter “gave the USA the permanent explicitly the Republicans believe that Panama has since violated its end of the deal.
“About 5% of the global maritime traffic flow through the Panama Canal and save 6,835 miles before a trip that would otherwise require a long and dangerous journey of the southern tip of South America,” says the memo. “The United States are Panama’s largest provider of foreign direct investment – 3.8 billion US dollars annually.”
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Kevin Hern, chairman of the House GOP Policy, is the Republican leader No. 5. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“Chinese companies are now operating at both ends of the channel. Chinese construction companies in 2018 have financed a Bridge project of 1.4 billion US dollars for the channel,” it is said.
“The contracts require that transit fees are” fair, reasonable, fair and in accordance with international law “and that Panama maintains the permanent neutrality of the channel,” said the memo. Investments by the Chinese Communist Party in the sewer zone are probably both violated the conditions of the contracts. “
In an emergency, the Congress has given the President the broad authority of international trade, but the GOP legislators have signaled that they would like to further alleviate these guardrails.
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However, the memo from Hern’s Policy Committee is remarkable as an obvious subtle marching order for the House GOP conference in order to continue this path.
It could also encourage Republican legislators to find legislative paths to further support Trump’s purchase of the canal, especially in view of the opposition of the Panamaic government against the US President’s plan.
