Tag: Threat from Communist China

Blinken: Chinese Spy Balloon Part of Global Campaign That Has Violated Nations Across 5 Continents

The United States is sharing information about China’s spy balloon program with dozens of nations after discovering a worldwide surveillance campaign led by the communist regime. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the announcement of the intelligence sharing during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary-General Jen Stoltenberg at the Department of State in Washington…


Witnesses at House Hearing Debate Proposals for Stopping CCP Economic and Geopolitical Aggression

With the world’s attention focused on Beijing’s meddling in the affairs of foreign nations and on tensions in an increasingly adversarial relationship between China and the United States, a panel of witnesses with expertise in diplomacy, trade, and national security presented a range of views on how best to counter the Chinese threat and safeguard…


Chinese Spy Balloon Went Over Other US Nuclear Weapons Sites, Top Lawmaker Says

A top House lawmaker said the Chinese spy balloon transited over key U.S. missile and nuclear weapon sites before it was shot down off the coast of the Carolinas last weekend. “If you take the path that this balloon did, and you put up an X every place where you have a missile defense site,…


AI Deepfake ‘News Anchors’ Used in Pro-China Videos on Social Media: Report

Artificial intelligence-generated deepfake news anchors are being used by Chinese state-aligned actors to promote pro-China propaganda videos on social media, according to a new report published on Feb. 7. The detailed report (pdf) by U.S.-based research firm Graphika marks the first time it has observed “state-aligned influence operation actors using video footage of AI-generated fictitious people in their operations.”…


Pentagon Says No to China’s Demands to Return Downed Spy Balloon Debris

Washington has said it won’t give back to Beijing the debris of China’s downed spy balloon while a senior Chinese official has called for the remnants of the vessel to be returned. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Monday that there are no plans to return to Beijing the debris of the downed balloon,…


‘If China Threatens Our Sovereignty, We Will Act’: Biden in State of the Union

President Joe Biden has sworn to protect American sovereignty in the face of Chinese communist aggression amid bipartisan alarm over the growing threat posed by Beijing. Biden said that his order to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace late last week was evidence of his commitment to defend the nation and…


House Intel ‘Gang of Eight’ Will Be Briefed on Chinese Balloon This Week

A staffer for House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) told The Epoch Times that congressional leaders in the intelligence-focused “Gang of Eight” will be briefed this week on the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States. The staffer said the briefing on the suspected surveillance balloon will not take place tomorrow morning at…


Congress Intel ‘Gang of Eight’ Will Be Briefed on Chinese Balloon This Week

A staffer for House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) told The Epoch Times that congressional leaders in the intelligence-focused “Gang of Eight” will be briefed this week on the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States. The staffer said the briefing on the suspected surveillance balloon will not take place tomorrow morning at…


Official Hints at Intelligence Chinese Spy Balloon Might Seek

An expert has hinted at the intelligence that the CCP might have been seeking to gather by sending its spy balloon over to the United States last week. Frank Gaffney, executive chairman at the Center for Security Policy, told NTD’s “China in Focus” program, The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet, that the CCP might have…


China Now Has More ICBM Launchers than the US, Lawmaker Confirms

China’s communist regime now fields more long-range, nuclear-capable missile launchers than the United States, according to the testimony of the House Armed Services Committee. Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) acknowledged that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, had leapfrogged the United States in the number of its active intercontinental…