A House Homeland Security subcommittee held a hearing on strategic investments made by China in ports across the Western Hemisphere and the potential implications of this for U.S. homeland security. Topics included how China’s presence near the Panama Canal and South America posed a threat to the homeland, how U.S. tariffs were a hindrance to its own ports, and how the freezing of federal grants and the dismantling of USAID might impact U.S. security and China’s infrastructure projects.