Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a victory lap over two recent “historic” agreements on the Panama Canal, marking major steps in the United States’s bid to retake the channel and protect it from China.
“If we can’t use that waterway in a key contingency, then China has an advantage,” Hegseth stated on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “Other presidents have allowed us – we’ve been sort of asleep at the wheel, President Trump has said ‘we need to be serious about our own backyard,’ that includes a place like the Panama Canal.”
Hegseth also expressed gratitude toward Mulino, a “pro-Trump” leader, for his willingness to aid the U.S. in combating China and “sticking his neck out” in doing so. He added that
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