Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and ...

But experts acknowledge U.S. security concerns, particularly regarding espionage, with an expansive Chinese commercial ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to get a close-up look at the Panama Canal on Tuesday, as he kicks off a rare ...

(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, and Panama Canal Authority Administrator Ricaurte ...

Capt. Efraín Hallax, 73, has been steering vessels through the canal, and he has seen it all, from a dictator’s fall to the ...

(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, and Panama Canal Authority Administrator Ricaurte ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...