'That is very different': CNN host fact-checks conservative's Panama claims
Raw StoryCNN's Sara Sidner fact-checked a conservative panelist's claims about China and the Panama Canal. Donald Trump threatened to reassert U.S. control over the canal, claiming that China had too much influence over the critical waterway, and conservative commentator Shermichael Singleton argued that Trump was right. The Chinese government, they're not playing checkers here, they're playing 4-D chess to dominate the global stage, and, in my opinion, they're moving in what I would argue is an area and a pace that should concern U.S. leaders, and this idea of the U.S. trying to at least somewhat usurp China's complete dominance in the region isn't necessarily new." "In the past, there have just been debates about what is the right course of action to sort of minimize China's growing influence in the Panama Canal, and I think it's important for Trump to really put a spotlight on this." "He's saying he's going to take back the Panama Canal," Sidner said.
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