Editing Panama Canal (section)

===Nicaragua canal===
{{Main|Nicaragua Canal}}
[[File:Panama Nicaragua Canals.png|thumb|Proposed Nicaragua Canal (in red)]]
On 7 July 2014, [[Wang Jing (businessman)|Wang Jing]], chairman of the [[HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment|HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. Ltd. (HKND Group)]] advised that a route for Nicaragua's proposed canal had been approved. The construction work was projected by HKND to begin in 2014 and take five years,<ref name=bbc>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30584559 |title=Nicaragua launches construction of inter-oceanic canal |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=23 December 2014 |access-date=9 January 2015 |archive-date=8 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108185127/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30584559 |url-status=live }}</ref> although there had been little progress before the project's abandonment.<ref name=ReutersPerry2017>{{cite web |url=http://news.trust.org/item/20171201092333-6asue |title=Can a coast-to-coast canal solve Nicaragua's poverty problem? |date=1 December 2017 |work=Thomson Reuters Foundation News |access-date=1 December 2017 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201104008/http://news.trust.org/item/20171201092333-6asue |url-status=live }}</ref> The Nicaraguan parliament approved plans for the {{cvt|280|km|mi|0}} canal through Nicaragua and according to the deal, the company would have been responsible for operating and maintaining the canal for a 50-year period. By May 2017, no concrete action had been reportedly taken constructing the canal and further doubts were expressed about its financing.<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 August 2017 |title=Four Years Later, China-Backed Nicaragua Canal Struggles to Take Off the Ground |url=https://panampost.com/adriana-peralta/2017/05/08/four-years-later-china-backed-nicaragua-canal-struggles-to-take-off-the-ground/ |access-date=6 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823160624/https://panampost.com/adriana-peralta/2017/05/08/four-years-later-china-backed-nicaragua-canal-struggles-to-take-off-the-ground/ |archive-date=23 August 2017 }}</ref> In February 2018, analysts widely viewed the project as defunct, though the head of the project insisted work was on-going and HKND retained the legal rights to the concession for the canal as well as side projects. Despite HKND vanishing in April 2018,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schmidt |first=Blake |date=26 April 2018 |title=Ex-Billionaire Abandons Office in Prime Hong Kong Tower |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/nicaragua-canal-builder-abandons-office-in-prime-hong-kong-tower |access-date=6 February 2022 |website=Bloomberg }}</ref> the Nicaraguan government indicates that it will continue with the {{cvt|908|km2|sqmi}} dry land expropriations within Nicaragua, under land expropriation Canal Law 840.{{fact|date=April 2025}}