Tag: China

Biden Appoints Adm. Lisa Franchetti as First Woman to Lead the Navy

President Joe Biden unveiled his nomination of Adm. Lisa Franchetti to take the helm of the Navy in a shock move unexpected by Pentagon officials. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had tapped Adm. Samuel Paparo for the top job. He currently oversees the Navy’s operations in the Pacific and has significant experience dealing with the complexities…


Cruz and Manchin Join Forces to Stop Sale of Oil From Strategic Stockpile

The U.S. Senate passed an amendment to the annual defense bill on Thursday that would ban oil exports to China from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which sits half empty after President Joe Biden ordered a drawdown to reduce soaring inflation. The amendment, spearheaded by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) passed the…


Senate Blocks China From Buying US Oil Reserves

The Senate is backing a measure to bar sales of U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves to Beijing. The latest development in a Chinese hacking incident involves the targeting of specific U.S. email accounts. Are Chinese self-driving cars collecting American data? Lawmakers are pressing for answers. Plus, the real story of NTD’s founding. Websites were attacked, advertisers…


Blinken Calls for Engagement With China After State Department Hack

The United States’ top diplomat is calling for increased diplomatic engagement with China’s communist regime following a massive hack of State Department emails by China-linked cybercriminals. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration would redouble its efforts to engage diplomatically with communist China following the hack of hundreds of thousands of U.S. government…


Chinese Province Saw Cremations Surge 72 Percent Amid Recent COVID Outbreak: Official Report

China’s eastern Zhejiang Province saw a spike in cremations in the first quarter, official data showed. China observers believe the provincial data indicates that the actual COVID-19 death toll in the country could be much higher than what the leadership in Beijing had reported. Due to Chinese authorities’ past record of underreporting infections and covering up information,…


China, Russia Grow Their Spy Networks in Mexico to Potentially Target the US

As U.S.-China relations remain tense and the war in Ukraine drags on, officials warn that both the China and Russia are rapidly increasing the number of their intelligence agents in Mexico, with the possible goal of causing disruptions in the United States. “In recent months, a Chinese spy balloon crossed the U.S., a CCP [Chinese…


China Prepares for Naval Drills With Russia in Sign of Continuing Support Amid Ukraine Conflict

China said Wednesday it has dispatched navy ships in preparation for joint exercises with Russia’s sea forces, in a sign of Beijing’s continuing support for Moscow’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The move comes despite the growing economic and humanitarian repercussions of the bloody 16 month-old air, sea and ground assault. China claims to be neutral…


IN-DEPTH: Battle for the Mind: China Steps Up Cognitive Warfare Against India

NEW DELHI—On diplomatic platforms, China is calling for mutual support and an easing of military tensions with India, but covertly it continues to accelerate its use of cognitive warfare against the subcontinent, strategic analysts allege. Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met on the sidelines of ASEAN in the…


MPs Speak Out: Testimony From Dying Victim Shows China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Persists

Conservative MPs Michael Cooper and Garnett Genuis are urging the government to issue sanctions against communist China for its forced organ harvesting campaign. The call comes in response to bombshell testimony from a dying victim. “It is estimated that 150 people a day in the PRC [People’s Republic of China] are killed as a result…


House Select Committee on CCP Launches Probe Into US Venture Firms’ Deals in China

Are U.S. companies pumping money into China’s military advancement? A congressional committee is trying to find out. Chinese e-commerce giants Temu and Shein are duking it out in U.S. courts. Temu is accusing Shein of bullying its suppliers, but that’s far from the only legal woes Shein is grappling with. Thousands are taking to the…