India, Feb. 3 -- Over Chinese "influence" and control over the Panama Canal, US President Donald Trump on Sunday said "something very powerful is going to happen soon", adding that the critical waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was not given to China but a violation of agreement had taken place.

The Panama Canal -- which Donald Trump has dubbed a modern "wonder of the world" -- was built by the US and opened in 1914 at the cost of thousands of lives of laborers, mostly people of African descent from Barbados, Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Among the first tasks on returning to Whit House, newly sworn in US President Donald Trump threatened to take control of the canal, handed over to Panama in 1999 by the t...