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01.09.25 - 00:54
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′We Have Many Options′: US Warships Pass Through Panama Canal Toward Southern Caribbean (ZeroHedge)
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'We Have Many Options': US Warships Pass Through Panama Canal Toward Southern Caribbean
U.S. warships were seen entering the Panama Canal while navigating east toward the Atlantic, according to photos taken on Aug. 30.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Aug. 19 that President Donald Trump was “prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into [the United States] and to bring those responsible to justice.”
“Many Caribbean nations and many nations in the region have applauded the administration's counterdrug operations and efforts,” Leavitt added.
As Jacob Burg reports below, the previous day, a White House official told The Epoch Times that U.S. naval and air assets would deploy to the southern Caribbean Sea amid a heightened counternarcotics effort.
That deployment puts U.S. warships a short distance off Venezuela's northern coastline, following years of strained relations between the United States and Venezuela.
In 2017, Trump told ...
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14.08.25 - 19:33
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No Panama Port Deal For CK Hutchison And BlackRock This Year (ZeroHedge)
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No Panama Port Deal For CK Hutchison And BlackRock This Year
The $19 billion sale of CK Hutchison's 43 global ports, including two strategically vital ports on the Panama Canal (Balboa and Cristóbal terminals), to a BlackRock-led consortium is far from completion, mired in the crossfire of US-China trade and geopolitical tensions.
CK Hutchison co-managing director Frank Sixt told Wall Street analysts during its interim earnings results earlier today that the deal's complexity means it likely won't be completed this year, especially after China demanded earlier this summer that its largest shipping company, Cosco, be included in the Western-investor deal.
"We are in a new stage of our deal and that includes, as we have said, discussions with a major strategic Chinese investor," Sixt said.
He continued, "I believe that there is a reasonable chance that those discussions will lead to a deal that is good for all of the parties, ourselves included, and most importantly,...
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