President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to prepare plans for carrying out his threat to “take back” the Panama Canal, including by military force if needed, two U.S. officials familiar with the situation told NBC News Thursday.
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Polish strategic port changes hands from China to U.S.
Timestamp: 7:02 – NATO’s Access to the Northern Sea Route from BlackRock’s Gdynia Port.
Tomasz Łukaszuk, who is also a research scientist at Warsaw University, was speaking as a U.S. consortium led by BlackRock is set to acquire a major stake in ports along the Panama Canal owned by a Hong Kong-based company, CK Hutchison Holdings, the same company that owns a cargo terminal in Poland’s Port of Gdynia.
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“It serves as the main transit hub for the transfer of American soldiers and equipment to Ukraine,” he continued. [Timestamp: 3:52]
Poland must ‘limit Chinese access’ to key ports, says Polish diplomat and scientist
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US Greenland-Panama Ambitions Aimed at War with Russia-China
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