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 ...

"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 ...

The U.S. Defense Secretary’s remarks at a ribbon cutting for a new American-financed dock triggered a fiery response f.

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 has held up the $23 billion sale of dozens of ports worldwide — including two key ports in the Panama Canal — to a group led by US investing giant BlackRock after President Trump express ...

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 ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday focused again on China's presence in the western hemisphere, one day after calling the world power a threat to the Panama Canal. Speaking at a ...

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 ...