China explodes as Panama stops the belt and roads Trade War News

Amid pressure from the United States, Panama is the first country in Latin America to leave Beijing, the global infrastructure.

China criticized the “Cold War mentality” in Washington in Latin America after it left Panama the belt and road initiative (BRI).

A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China on Friday went out in the United States to sabotage the global infrastructure program.

Lyn Jian said in a statement that Beijing “strongly opposes the use of pressure and coercion to distort and undermine the belt and cooperate on the roads.” “The attacks of the American side … again show their dominant nature.”

Referring to this week’s visit to the region by Marco Rubio, Lynn said, “Unrelently accuses China, and is deliberately cultivated between China and Latin American countries related to the relevant, and interference.”

Jian indicated that more than 20 Latin American countries are among more than 150 countries that have participated in BRI since its launch by China in 2013.

Panama became the first in the region to formally join the huge infrastructure plan, a major column for President Xi Jinping attempt to expand his global country’s influence.

But on Thursday, Panama President Jose Raul Mulino said that his country had officially made a notification that he would leave the project.

The announcement was followed by the visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who also toured the Panama Channel.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Panama of giving up the control of the strategic waterway to China, despite the denial of both countries.

Mulino denied that the United States prompted Panama to move to take off from BRI.

Rubio, who threatened to take action against Panama unless he made immediate changes to reduce the Chinese influence on the channel, praised the announcement as a “great step forward” of bilateral relations.

Beijing insisted on Friday that he “supports Panama’s sovereignty on the channel.”

Jian said: “We hope that Panama will make the correct decision based on the general situation of bilateral relations and long -term interests of the two peoples, and remove external interference.”