China dismissed Thursday U.S. president Donald Trump's accusation of interfering in the Panama Canal through the operational concession of two ports of entry.
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00:00China dismissed Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump's accusations of interfering in the
00:05Panama Canal through the operational concession of two ports of entry.
00:10Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wu Yikun said the canal was a permanently neutral international
00:17waterway and stressed that his country respects Panama's sovereignty over it as well as
00:23its management and operation.
00:25On the other hand, the Panamanian government also rejected as untrue a White House statement
00:30that announced that U.S. vessels would be exempt from any transit at all in the canal.