Panama’s Foreign Minister Seeks Dialogue with China Over Canal Dispute at UN

Panama’s foreign minister used a United Nations Security Council debate on Tuesday to call for dialogue over confrontation, saying his country was “born to connect oceans, continents, cultures and economies” in a speech delivered before an assembly chaired by China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, as the two countries navigate their worst bilateral crisis since establishing ties in 2017. ... (rest of the cleaned article with preserved quotation marks and paragraph breaks)