China building second Sri Lanka port
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — China is building a second seaport on this strategic Indian Ocean island as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing's global expansion strategy.The first Chinese-built...
View ArticleMQ-9 Reaper drones sold to Taiwan
The Trump administration is stepping up efforts to bolster Taiwan's defenses, announcing this week that its latest arms sale package includes the first transfer of advanced Reaper drones capable of...
View ArticleJoe Biden backs China appeasement
Presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden has indicated plans to continue vigorous American policies toward China, but his record suggests he will return to the appeasement policies toward Beijing of...
View ArticlePentagon counterspy report shows threats growing
The compromise of defense secrets remains a growing problem and the war on terror has limited the Pentagon's ability to conduct effective counterintelligence, according to a report by the Defense...
View ArticleInside the Ring: Biden, Democrats to scale back nukes
The federal government's $1.2 trillion program to upgrade U.S. nuclear forces is in jeopardy with the election of presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden and a Congress that could be led in both...
View ArticleHenry Kissinger, 9 others leave Defense Policy Board
After this column first disclosed the large number of pro-China officials and holdovers from the Obama administration sitting on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, the board has been belatedly purged...
View ArticleEric Swalwell's China views raise security questions
Rep. Eric Swalwell, a liberal California Democrat who last year for a short time was a Democratic presidential candidate, is under fire for his relationship with a Chinese national suspected of being...
View ArticleDany Shoham: Virus likely unnatural
Retired Israeli Lt. Col. Dany Shoham, who was among the first to suggest that the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak may be linked to China's military research, now believes there is a strong possibility that...
View ArticleCoronavirus origin divides task force
An interagency group of scientists and medical experts formed to study the origin of the coronavirus is deadlocked over how to report their conclusions in the waning days of the Trump...
View ArticleJohn Ratcliffe: Intel on China politicized
Outgoing Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe dropped a political bombshell in a report issued in the final days of the Trump administration, accusing U.S. intelligence analysts of...
View ArticleNSA hacked Huawei routers
Documents leaked from the National Security Agency in 2014 revealed that the nation's premier spy service was secretly stealing electronic and other secrets by hacking Huawei Technologies...
View ArticleWHO visits China lab in COVID-19 origin search
After more than a year of delays imposed by the Chinese government, a World Health Organization team probing the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic visited the suspect Wuhan Institute of Virology on...
View ArticleJoe Biden ends Confucius Institute disclosures
The Department of Homeland Security has dropped plans for a federal rule that would have required American schools and universities to disclose agreements with Chinese government-funded Confucius...
View ArticleLloyd Austin's 'extremism' ban relayed to Navy, Marine Corps
A Navy message to all sailors and Marines outlines some of the Biden administration's thinking regarding combating radicalism within the services, following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's call for a...
View ArticleWilliam Burns backs CIA AI to counter China
William J. Burns, the veteran diplomat tapped to be the next CIA director, says he will follow through with the agency's plans to adopt artificial intelligence technology to counter the large and...
View ArticleAir Force to test hypersonic missile
The Air Force is moving ahead with a revolutionary high-speed missile that will be tested in the coming weeks, according to officials.An air-launched test of the booster for the AGM-183A Air-Launched...
View ArticleColin Kahl, Pentagon nominee, under fire for Twitter posts
The nomination of President Biden's former national security adviser to a senior Pentagon post is under fire from Republicans over inflammatory social media postings that have placed the confirmation...
View ArticleSeagate chip sales to China's Huawei investigated
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, the agency in charge of monitoring compliance with export controls, is investigating the hard-drive maker Seagate Technology over a possible...
View ArticleJohn Aquilino: China's military buildup accelerates
China is speeding up its large-scale military buildup with new weapons and military capabilities faster than previous estimates, the admiral likely to be the next head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command...
View ArticleSOCOM fights China's disinformation
The U.S. Special Operations Command is shifting its focus from battling terrorists to fighting Chinese disinformation and preparing for a covert role in any future conflict with Beijing.The new focus...
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