Earlier this week, Hegseth visited U.S. troops, met with Panamanian officials, and toured the canal. He warned sharply that China’s reach in the Western Hemisphere is already too big ...

Hegseth’s tune on Panama is decidedly different from the rhetoric employed by Trump following his November election victory. Trump himself has floated plans to take the canal, refusing to rule out ...

Cambodia should share a feasibility study on the impact of a planned China-backed canal that would divert water from the rice ...

Cambodia and China have signed a $1.2 billion deal to finance an ambitious canal project that aims to boost trade efficiency ...

PANAMA CITY — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Panama Canal faces ongoing threats from China but that together the United States and Panama will keep it secure. Hegseth’s ...

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that the US will not allow China to threaten the Panama Canal. Hegseth met with Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino. China denied it interfered in canal ...

The escalating war of words between the US and China over the canal has left Panama – which does not have a military – baffled and brings to mind the old proverb of how “when elephants fight ...

Last week, China staged a production in Panama by a dance theater group, titled ‘Getting to know the Great Canal,’ commemorating its own Beijing-Hangzhou waterway, the oldest and longest in ...

"China did not build this canal, China does not operate this canal ... joint together between Americans and Panamanians - is a great example to the world of our deepening partnership," Hegseth ...

Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor ...