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Secretary Pete Hegset On Tuesday, the United States would return Panama -Canal from “China’s influence” as Washington is trying to resume control of large trade.
“The United States of America will not allow communist China or any other country to threaten the channel’s operations or integrity,” he said during the Central America press. “To this end, the United States and Panama have done more than recent weeks to strengthen our defense and security than in the decades.
“We will return the Panaman channel together from China’s influence,” he added.
Panama’s Security Minister Frank Abrega hosts the defense secretary Pete Hugset at the Panama -Sity Presidential Palace, Panama on April 8, 2025. (Daniel A. Gonzalez/Anadol via Getty Images)
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Panama repeatedly rejected the statements of Trump’s administration that China is effective manages the channel As it controls the two main ports at any end of the waterway.
However, earlier this year, the Central American nation came out of its agreements on the size and road initiatives in the alarm that Panama decided to the side of the Trump administration in this geopolitical spot.
Hegset outlined the litany of joint exercises, operations and the total presence of the US military in and around it to go to China, although Fox News Digital could not immediately reach the Pentagon to confirm whether the US presence in the region means.
The demonstrator screams slogans next to riot police, during the protest against the visit of Defense Minister Pitt Hugset to Panama -Sity, April 8, 2025. (Martin Bernett/AFP via Getty Images)
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“Our relations with Panama, especially our security relationships, will continue to grow in the next months and years,” said Gegset. “Our relationship is partly growing to solve the increasing problems of communist China.”
Said Minister of Defense Chinese companies Continue to install the “critical infrastructure” in the channel that gives China a “potential” ability “to monitor.
On December 28, Panama, two December 2024, two trucks swimming on the lake of variety near the castles of Aga Clara Panama Canal in Kal., Panama. (Arnulfo Franco/AFP via Getty Images)
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“It makes Panama and the US less safe, less prosperous, less sovereign,” he added.
“I want to be very understandable. China has not built this channel. China does not work with this channel, and China will not arm this channel,” Hugset said.
The Chinese Embassy at DC did not immediately respond to Digital Fox News.
