{"id":38316,"date":"2025-04-09T01:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T01:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/china-fires-back-after-pete-hegseth-calls-country-a-threat-to-panama-canal\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T01:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T01:49:14","slug":"china-fires-back-after-pete-hegseth-calls-country-a-threat-to-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/china-fires-back-after-pete-hegseth-calls-country-a-threat-to-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"China fires back after Pete Hegseth calls country a threat to Panama canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese government asks: \u2018Who represents the real threat?\u2019 after US defense secretary vows to keep canal secure<\/p>\n<p>US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that the Panama canal faces ongoing threats from China but that together the United States and Panama will keep it secure.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth\u2019s remarks triggered a fiery response from the Chinese government, which said: \u201cWho represents the real threat to the Canal? People will make their own judgement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/08\/pete-hegseth-china-panama-canal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese government asks: \u2018Who represents the real threat?\u2019 after US defense secretary vows to keep canal secure US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that the Panama canal faces ongoing threats from China but that together the United States and Panama will keep it secure. Hegseth\u2019s remarks triggered a fiery response from the &#8230; <a title=\"China fires back after Pete Hegseth calls country a threat to Panama canal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/china-fires-back-after-pete-hegseth-calls-country-a-threat-to-panama-canal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about China fires back after Pete Hegseth calls country a threat to Panama canal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}