Did China pay for the canal? Then Panama must compensate them. The continued partnership with Panama is going to go on for centuries, they have to think long term. No one pays $1 for decades of work by 35,000 people. They all have to take their illicit gains and be satisfied with what they have all already made. This is not a game. Hundreds of thousands of Americans paid the ultimate price from their illicit drug dealing and illegal migration. We owe nothing, but in fact could exact a toll. Hope China does the right thing.