The Senate on Feb. 11 advanced a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan despite opposition from conservative Republicans who say the border should be secured before funds are given to overseas partners. In a 67–27 vote, the $95.3 billion package moved one step closer to a final floor vote in the upper chamber, […]

DES MOINE, Iowa—Vivek Ramaswamy announced he’s dropping out of the presidential race after placing fourth in the Iowa Caucus. “There is no path for me to be the next president, absent things that we don’t want to see happen in this country,” he announced at his Iowa watch party in Surety Hotel in downtown Des […]

NEW YORK—A time for renewal and reflection emerged as key themes for adherents of the spiritual practice Falun Gong who participated in Flushing’s Lunar New Year parade on Jan. 21 to usher in the year of the rabbit. Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners formed several segments of a thousands-strong parade that marched through the heart […]

The House Oversight Committee will investigate President Joe Biden and his involvement in his son Hunter’s foreign business deals, Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced on Nov. 17 ahead of the GOP retaking the chamber in the new year. Contrary to the president’s claims, the elder Biden was directly involved in Hunter’s […]

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.—Heavy rain and cold winds did not deter hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners from parading down Brooklyn’s Chinatown on Oct. 2 to call for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s 23-year-long persecution of the spiritual group. Participants, drenched by the rain despite many of them wearing yellow plastic rain jackets, held […]

More than 30 Republican senators have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to give the federal prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden special counsel protections, arguing that such a move would help assure the American people that the probe is free from political influence amid widespread allegations of bias at the Department of Justice (DOJ). The president’s […]

The Chinese regime said on Sept. 16 that it is sanctioning top executives of two U.S. arms firms in retaliation for recently selling arms to Taiwan. The sanctions were imposed on Gregory J. Hayes, CEO of Raytheon Technologies Corporation, and Theodore Colbert, CEO of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, for the involvement of their companies […]

The former head of security at Twitter was told earlier this year by the U.S. government that there was at least one agent of China’s top intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), working as an employee at the company. This was one of the revelations made by Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a whistleblower who served […]

Former Trump administration strategist Steve Bannon said fresh New York state charges against him over a scheme to raise money to build border barriers on private land are an attempt to silence him ahead of the November midterms. “They’ve got a populist revolt that’s out of control, and they’re trying to take me out of […]

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Maggie Hassan (N.H.) are set to lead the first congressional hearing on gain-of-function research as part of his ongoing efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hearing, scheduled for Aug. 3, comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny on whether a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) […]

President Joe Biden said Nov. 18 that the White House is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over Beijing’s human rights abuses. Such a move would mean that the administration would not send dignitaries to the Games, but American athletes would still be allowed to complete. Speaking to reporters as he hosted […]

President Joe Biden, at a summit of East Asian leaders on Oct. 27, said the United States was deeply concerned by the Chinese regime’s “coercive” actions in the Taiwan Strait. His comments came weeks after Beijing deployed a record number of aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense zone, prompting sharp protest from the self-ruled island and […]

The United States on Oct. 3 urged the Chinese communist regime to stop its “provocative” military activities near Taiwan, after Beijing sent nearly 100 aircraft into the island’s air defense zone over a three-day period. On Friday, Saturday, and again on Sunday, Chinese military planes flew into the zone, prompting Taiwan to scramble its fighter […]

Psychological warfare. Public opinion warfare. Legal warfare. Known as the “three warfares” doctrine and relatively unknown in the West, these concepts serve as key strategies guiding the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its quest to win a war against the free world without firing a single shot. Psychological warfare seeks to demoralize the enemy; public […]

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to explain why prosecutors have dropped a series of cases connected with the Justice Department’s (DOJ) clampdown on Chinese espionage. In July, federal prosecutors filed motions to dismiss charges against six Chinese researchers who had been accused […]

World Bank leaders, including then-Chief Executive Kristalina Georgieva who is now the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), applied “undue pressure” on staff to boost China’s standing in the bank’s “Doing Business 2018,” according to an investigation related on Sept. 16. The report (pdf), prepared by outside law firm WilmerHale at the request of […]

The United States, the UK, and Australia on Sept. 15 announced a new trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific, amid rising Chinese assertiveness in the region. The first move under this partnership, called “AUKUS,” would be for the United States and the UK to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines, according to a joint statement by the […]

Despite the Chinese regime banning fentanyl and its analogues in 2019, China remains the primary source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances being trafficked into the United States, according to a new report by a U.S. congressional advisory body. Chinese traffickers have found sophisticated ways to circumvent these regulations, said an Aug. 24 U.S.–China Economic and […]

News Analysis The United States is likely to intensify efforts to strengthen alliances aimed at countering the Chinese regime, in the wake of blistering criticism over how Washington handled its withdrawal from Afghanistan, experts say. The United States’ pullout from Afghanistan was intended to align with the Biden administration’s efforts to shift its focus to […]

President Joe Biden intends to nominate veteran U.S. diplomat Nicholas Burns to serve as U.S. ambassador to China, the White House announced on Aug. 20. If confirmed by the Senate, Burns would be the first career diplomat to fill the role in recent years, as the position has been occupied by former politicians over the […]