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Hi, I'm Johnny diamond and from the BBC World Service.
This is the global story.
Slicing through the Americas, the Panama Canal is a feat of engineering that has changed the very fabric of world trade.
Built against incredible odds by the United States, it's been run by Panama for more than a quarter of a century.
But President Trump wants it back.
He says China is reaching too deep into Panama's affairs for comfort and that America is paying too much to use the canal it built.
We'll look at the astonishing history behind one of the marvels of the modern world and ask Panama, whose canal is it anyway?
With me today is Julie Green, a professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland.
Hi, Julie.
Hello, Johnny.
Before we get to the stage in which the United States comes on the scene with the Panama Canal, it was far from the first nation to envisage slicing through the Americas.