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Panama has become the first Latin American nation to pull out of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It’s also weighing whether to cancel its contract with the Hong Kong-based company that operates near the Panama Canal. Margaret Myers, an adviser to the US Institute for Peace, tells The World’s Marco Werman that it’s all part of the long rivalry between the US and China in Latin America.