President Mulino and Secretary Hegseth: the joint statement from Panama and the US covers all the Donald J. Trump administration priorities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited Panama yesterday, in the first visit by a top US official in decades – and the results so far appear to be quite satisfactory. In the forceful speech he made on the pier the US and Panama restored, Hegseth was incisive about the need to curtail Chinese influence on the Canal. He said ‘Together, we will take back the Panama Canal from China’s influence’, and also that ‘China did not build this canal. China does not operate this canal, and China will not weaponize this canal’. In a US-Panama joint statement, it was announced several courses of action: Panama…
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