The company partially owned by the Chinese is managing the ports and not the Canal.
The article has one little dig at the Americans that I think needs some light shed on it. The accident rate went down when the ACP changed what was deemed an accident. Under the old Canal Authority, any ship touching anything was written up and reviewed. The ACP however does not follow this practice.
Also, there are still plenty of Americans working at the ACP. Mostly in management and there you are. The Canal is working just as well under the ACP as the Americans :-)
Thanks for the corrections regarding the ChiComs. In any event, the main original argument in '76 (which carried Reagan to the conventin, saving his bacon in Texas and beyond) was largely a matter of justice, not whether the Panamianians could run the operation well.
I don't particularly want the ChiComs being part owners of the management company running the ports either. The secondary argument had to do with the United States being able to move in and act to protect the Canal as needed without interference. That's a slam dunk when you already own it.