{"id":46234,"date":"2025-04-10T17:29:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=46234"},"modified":"2025-04-10T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:29:59","slug":"washington-rejects-chinese-influence-in-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/washington-rejects-chinese-influence-in-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Rejects \u2018Chinese Influence\u2019 in Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will not allow China to \u201cthreaten\u201d the operations of the Panama Canal, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned adding that his country does \u201cnot seek war with China\u201d but will act to deter Chinese \u201cthreats\u201d in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not seek war with China&#8230;But together, we must prevent war by robustly and vigorously deterring China&#8217;s threats in this hemisphere,\u201d Hegseth said on the second day of his visit to Panama, whose canal is at the center of a row between China and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the Panama Canal faces ongoing threats,\u201d Hegseth said in a speech at a police station located at the entry to the shipping route.<br \/>\n\u201cThe United States of America will not allow communist China or any other country to threaten the canal&#8217;s operation or integrity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>US and Chinese firms fight for business on the waterway after President Donald Trump threatened to seize it.<\/p>\n<p>His administration has vowed to \u201ctake back\u201d control of the interoceanic waterway that the United States funded, built and controlled until 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will not allow China to \u201cthreaten\u201d the operations of the Panama Canal, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned adding that his country does \u201cnot seek war with China\u201d but will act to deter Chinese \u201cthreats\u201d in the Americas. \u201cWe do not seek war with China&#8230;But together, we must prevent war by robustly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46235,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46234\/revisions\/46235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}