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submitted 4 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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Donald Trump criticized Panama Canal fees as “ridiculous” and demanded lower costs or the canal’s return to the US.

In a Truth Social post, Trump also expressed concern about potential Chinese influence over the waterway, despite no direct Chinese control of canal operations.

The canal, transferred to Panama in 1999, is vital for global trade, handling 5% of maritime traffic.

Trump’s comments follow record revenues of $5 billion announced by the Panama Canal Authority. Panama has not yet responded to his statements.

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By your own logic, that wouldn't be international news - it would be x country news and shouldn't be posted here either. Why would it be "passable" if the news was about another country doing it?

When Trump starts threatening to glass the EU with ICBMs, would that be US news only and not international? After all, it would be about the US and its arsenal of nuclear weapons.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

That was probably a bad definition, sorry. I'm just tired of hearing of US news. But yeah, i would agree that the example would be international news.

I totally get it, I live in the US and I'm so goddamn sick of hearing about this nonsense. The worst part for everybody else is how much money is in the US economy, which means that basically everything we do affects the world and is therefore international/world news.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

One of the first things he's going to do is increase taxes on the poor and what's left of the middle class and give tax breaks to the rich and corporations. Even that is world news in my opinion just because of the US status as pretty much the only world superpower. My country spends more on the military than the rest of the top 10 combined.

Don't forget that about half of those countries are also our allies (at least for a few months longer).

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, same. and probably hearing trump's name all the time will make you easily annoyed by hearing the word "US".

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