China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) bombers are likely training for strikes against the United States and its allies, and a massive fleet of maritime militia that’s controlled by Beijing is being used to support the regime’s aggression in the South China Sea and beyond, according to a new Pentagon report on the Chinese regime’s military […]

Google’s decision to cut ties with Pentagon’s artificial intelligence program is hypocritical and could put American lives at risk, according to a former top U.S. defense official, who pointed out that the tech giant is helping U.S. adversaries such as China develop AI technology that could be used against the United States in a conflict. […]

The upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, scheduled to take place on June 12 in Singapore, is highly anticipated and will perhaps be one of the most consequential events in 2018. Here is a rundown of what the principal players other than the United States ( see: In […]

In a high profile speech in Asia, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis blasted China for committing “intimidation and coercion” in the South China Sea and said the United States will make sure Beijing’s aggression is met with “consequences.” On Saturday Mattis spoke at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual security summit in Singapore that each year […]

WASHINGTON–China, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia and a handful of others continue to abuse religious freedom in their respective countries without hesitation, a U.S. State Department report says. “The United States will not stand by as spectators,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during the press briefing at the State Department on Tuesday to introduce […]

WASHINGTON—Hundreds of thousands of motorcyclists from across the nation rode into Washington on Sunday, May 27, 2018, as part of the 31st annual Rolling Thunder “Ride for Freedom” motorcycle rally. The rally is an annual Memorial Day weekend tradition that has been maintained since 1988, to honor U.S. military veterans and fallen soldiers. Organized by the […]

WASHINGTON—Both houses of Congress are set to pass legislation that would strengthen the scrutiny given foreign purchases of American businesses with technologies critical to national security, making it easier to block such sales. Key proponents of the bill have repeatedly named China as the primary target, as Beijing has continued its aggressive industrial policy and […]

Amidst Beijing’s ever-increasing military aggression, the United States has disinvited China from participating in an annual U.S.-led international military exercise scheduled to take place next month in the Pacific Ocean. The move is said to be in response to Beijing’s recent escalation of the militarization of islands in the South China Sea, which has been […]

WASHINGTON—A former senior U.S. diplomat from the Obama administration said that President Trump’s recent decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal would not adversely affect U.S. negotiations with North Korea, contrary to the opinion of many of Trump’s critics. The regime’s dictator Kim Jong-Un never trusted the United States and is unlikely to follow […]

As Chinese companies increasingly dominate manufacturing in the global pharmaceutical market, an expert says it is high time for U.S. policy makers to start treating medicine as a strategic asset and to ensure the American public has a healthy reserve of essential drugs laid by for a time of crisis. Rosemary Gibson, a senior advisor […]

As the world awaits with anticipation and anxiety for the upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has sent conflicting signals to the United States. Doubts have now been raised whether Moon’s left-leaning administration is committed to keeping U.S. troops in the Korean Peninsula […]

China continues to be among the world’s worst abuser of press freedom and jails the largest number of journalists in its prisons, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on April 25. In addition, the press freedom watchdog warned that authoritarian countries across Asia seeking to further consolidate their rule are copying Beijing’s model of media […]

Smartphones made by the Chinese company Huawei are being sold to soldiers at U.S. military bases in Germany. These sales raise national security concerns as U.S. intelligence officials and lawmakers have repeatedly accused Huawei of spying for the Chinese regime, which it has close ties with. Stars and Stripes, a U.S. military-affiliated newspaper first reported […]

A congressional commission report found that the top manufacturers supplying information technology (IT) equipment to the U.S. government sourced an average of 51 percent of the parts from China. The lack of a proactive strategy for managing U.S. supply chains combined with the Chinese communist regime’s malicious intent constitutes a great risk to U.S. national […]

WASHINGTON–The Defense Department’s highest priority when it comes to developing new technologies is to create weapons that can hold China at risk so as to deter Beijing aggression, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering told lawmakers on April 18. Michael D. Griffin, the newly appointed Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, […]

A new report published by a U.S. think tank says that it is just “a matter of time” before the People’s Republic of China launches a limited yet decisive military invasion against the Senkaku Islands, the disputed islands in the East China Sea currently controlled by Japan. Published by the Project 2049 Institute, the report’s […]

Amidst an escalating diplomatic and economic standoff between the United States and the Chinese communist regime, the U.S. Congress has approved a massive spending bill that includes $17 million that will be used to support Tibetans in and out of Tibet. This includes the Tibetan government-in-exile, which is vehemently opposed by the Chinese regime that […]

News Analysis Decades of a conciliatory approach by the United States toward China could be finally coming to an end, as President Donald Trump has tapped John Bolton to be the next national security adviser. With a single March 22 tweet, Trump ousted H.R. McMaster and announced that Bolton will be taking over the most […]

Congressman Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) wants to introduce a little transparency into the operation of Confucius Institutes in the United States. In an interview with The Epoch Times, Wilson explained why he introduced the Foreign Influence Transparency Act of 2018 on March 20, a bill that seeks to require a foreign entity in the United States […]

To the surprise of no one, a new report says that the Chinese regime continues to tighten its grip on the internet and imposes ever more aggressive censorship on Chinese social media while putting in jail those who those dare to express dissent. The report, “Forbidden Feeds: Government Controls on Social Media in China” was […]

President Donald Trump on March 16 signed into law a widely-watched piece of legislation that encourages more high-level official exchanges between United States and Taiwan. Supported unanimously by the U.S. Congress, the bill is thought to be symbolic in legal terms, but observers say it sends out a strong public message that the U.S. decision […]

President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, known for espousing a hardline view toward U.S. relations with China on trade and other issues, is set to have even greater influence on the administration following the departure of another top economic adviser who favors a conciliatory approach to China. The resignation of Gary Cohn March 6, […]

China’s dominant messaging app WeChat now has one billion accounts worldwide. The popularity of the platform, however, has not diminished concerns over how the app acts hand-in-glove with the Chinese regime, sharing private user data with it and helping to implement censorship. Pony Ma, chief executive of WeChat’s parent company Tencent, said on March 5 […]

Despite the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) insistence that the United States must not recognize nor support Taiwan’s statehood, the U.S. Congress has thrown its support behind the island nation, as both houses unanimously passed a bill that would pave the way for more official exchanges with Taiwan. While Beijing has vehemently criticized the bill’s […]

Amidst the continuing military standoff and tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has announced a whopping list of new economic benefits designed to lure Taiwanese businesses and individuals to come to the mainland. The Taiwanese government and some observers warn that the new “gift package” from the Chinese regime, which […]

A report says that Uyghurs, the Muslim ethnic people in China’s Xinjiang region that has been among China’s most heavily persecuted minority groups, are being spied upon by Chinese regime’s intelligence services even after they’ve escaped China and sought asylum overseas. The report comes at a time when the United States and other nations are […]

As the Vatican is preparing to cave in to the demands of the Chinese regime in exchange for the resumption of diplomatic relations with China, a world-renowned Chinese dissident has come out to condemn the Vatican’s move as a moral betrayal of faithful Catholics worldwide, in an article titled, “The Vatican Is Making a Deal […]

WASHINTON—U.S. President Trump pointedly blamed the World Trade Organization (WTO) for enabling China’s rise at the expense of the United States, in remarks to CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) on Feb. 23. “The World Trade Organization created China,” said Trump to thousands of attendees. “China has been a rocket ship since. And now, last year, […]

In a marathon series of congressional hearings and panel discussions the week of Feb. 12, congressional leaders, a top Navy admiral, and a wide range of experts pointed to China as the most consequential strategic rival and national security threat to the United States. A consensus is emerging that the United States must push back […]

As observers and Catholics around the world have been stunned by how the Vatican, in exchange for diplomatic relations, has caved in to the Chinese regime’s demands, its state media have readily rushed to Pope Francis’ defense and dismissed criticism levelled against the deal as nothing more than the grudges of “American Catholics.” Meanwhile, the […]

The Chinese communist regime’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has fitted a test ship with a prototype electromagnetic railgun, an experimental weapon that could potentially become a game-changer in future naval warfare against the United States and its allies. The regime’s state-run media report that the railgun design, once operational, could be installed on PLAN’s upcoming […]

In a move that breaks with centuries of Catholic tradition, the Vatican under Pope Francis has reportedly forced two duly appointed Chinese bishops to make way for those unilaterally imposed by the Chinese regime. The move is the latest in a series of concessions Pope Francis has made in recent years to seek resumption of […]

The Chinese regime has been challenging U.S. military supremacy for years with an all-out military buildup.  The construction of multiple ships of a class of large, high-tech naval cruisers may signal an altering of the balance of power in Asian waters, and is a harbinger of increased global competition between the two naval powers. The […]

The Chinese regime’s persecution of Christianity reached new heights as military police demolished a church in northern China’s Shanxi Province. Explosives were used to bring down the $3 million church, as Chinese Christians who had built and attended it wept. The Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen, a city of 4.3 million, was one of China’s […]

The Chinese regime’s persecution of Christianity reached new heights as military police demolished a church in northern China’s Shanxi Province. Explosives were used to bring down the $3 million church, as Chinese Christians that built and attended it wept. The Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen, a city of 4.3 million, was one of China’s many […]

President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy has received praise from an unlikely source: A preeminent Chinese foreign policy scholar who is well-known in China for his writings concerning the competition between the United States and China. Trump’s new strategy, if implemented, could quickly restore U.S. power around the globe and help it challenge China’s […]

The recent arrest of a relatively unknown dissident in China may have been made possible by the regime’s use of facial recognition technology, now widely installed in camera systems in major cities in China. If so, this arrest could mark the Chinese regime’s entry into a period of what critics are calling “digitized totalitarianism.” Around […]

On Christmas Eve this year, the tens of millions of Christians in China can only celebrate their most important religious holiday discreetly and in fear as the Communist Party regime has unleashed its most severe crackdown on Christmas in recent years. Church services are strictly curtailed and monitored by cameras, and there have been reports […]

The U.S. Congress is beginning to take a more skeptical view of the Chinese regime. On Dec. 20, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) joined a panel organized by a group dedicated to disintegrating the Chinese Communist Party. “Our number one challenge in the years ahead is [to deal with] a fascistic, […]

WASHINGTON–U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a new national security strategy on Monday in which he laid out the case for preparing the country to confront the “revisionist powers” of Russia and China that are challenging the United States and its allies. China and its aggressive rise received particular attention, a challenge that the document describes […]

The launch of North Korea’s longest range intercontinental ballistic missile on Nov. 28 appears to have accidentally incinerated a North Korean worker on the site, based on analysis of the original, unedited video of the launch. The blunder could indicate that the North Korean regime failed to anticipate the missile’s power, which is significantly greater […]

Despite China’s rapidly growing economy and engagement with the free world, the Chinese Communist Party remains firmly hostile to the liberal democracies of the West and has been overtly and covertly subverting the leadership and interests of the United States for decades, according to Greg Autry, who co-authored the 2011 book “Death by China: Confronting the […]