On one hand, Russian officials are convinced that Vladimir Putin has become the ultimate ... Trump’s casual claims to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal—and his cozying up to far-right ...

In that respect, Putin has acted as a brake on Xi’s own ... to take control of Greenland (from Denmark) and the Panama Canal (from Panama) have perhaps irreparably undermined Washington ...

Over the past few weeks the new US president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly claimed that the United States should “take back” the Panama Canal and that it ... be emulating China’s Xi Jinping and ...

But give Trump some benefit of the doubt: He must have meant respected in the anti-democratic world, the one led by the actual dictators he so admires, not least Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

He has vowed to “take back” the Panama Canal. He frequently says ... leaders that he seems to view as genuine peers — Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping — also see territorial expansion as ...

That might be precisely the kind of world that Trump – who in recent weeks has mulled the forcible takeover of Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada – has in mind. “I really believe that he wants to ...

The Trump administration’s apparent concessions to Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine ... claiming the US needs to take control of the Panama Canal, launching a ‘rough wooing’ campaign to ...