China on Monday said Washington's “smear campaigns” against it are an “excuse to control” Latin America, as US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Panama Canal faces “ongoing threats ...

The United States and Panama have signed a new defence and security pact to boost cooperation around the Panama Canal — a move US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth called vital to countering China ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

causing trouble and maliciously associating China with the Panama Canal issue to excuse its own control over the canal, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry said in Beijing on Wednesday.

The US would not allow China to “threaten” the operations of the Panama Canal, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday during a visit to the Central American nation. Hegseth is the second ...

The canal has been thrust into the limelight since the return of Donald Trump as US president in January. Trump is opposed to China's growing influence in the region, and has repeatedly spoken ...