The United States will "take back" the Panama Canal from Chinese influence, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on ...

But experts acknowledge U.S. security concerns, particularly regarding espionage, with an expansive Chinese commercial presence in Panama that also includes plans by Chinese firms to build a bridge ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, right, and Panama Canal Authority Administrator Ricaurte Vasquez, second from right, cross a bridge during a tour of the Panama Canal's Miraflores Locks in ...

Image The bridge of a ship traversing the Panama Canal at night. “Sometimes there is friction with some of the captains,” he said of the power transfer. “It’s like asking someone for his ...

The backdrop — a towering bridge with cargo ships loitering in ... the Panamanians to secure the sovereignty of the Panama Canal,” Hegseth said in a press conference Wednesday.

with an expansive Chinese commercial presence in Panama that also includes plans by Chinese firms to build a bridge over the canal. "China has never been involved in the management and operation ...

(CNN) — Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and its namesake canal that joins the Atlantic to the ...

with an expansive Chinese commercial presence in Panama that also includes plans by Chinese firms to build a bridge over the canal. Last month, Trump celebrated a deal led by US firm BlackRock to ...