PANAMA CITY — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday focused again on China’s presence in the Western Hemisphere, one day after calling the world power a threat to the Panama Canal.

"China's military has too large of a presence in the Western Hemisphere," Hegseth said. China and the United States both maintain significant military forces. China has the world's largest ...

Despite a torrent of Western sanctions imposed on Beijing and ... “It is very hard to think of cases where China has said, ‘Because of the sanctions, we’re going to change,’” added ...

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has again put China at the center of U.S. priorities in the Western Hemisphere, one day after calling the world power a threat to the Panama Canal ...