Tag: China

Hackers apparently affiliated with China breached OPM and gained access to 4 million federal employees' personnel records. (AP Photo)Â

Report: Military security clearance files hacked

David Brown · June 12, 2015 10:04 pm

National Security

Watch: Chinese general visits Pentagon amid South China Sea tensions

Tara Copp · June 11, 2015 8:59 pm

A participant looks at lines of code on a laptop on the first day of the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) - Behind Enemy Lines computer hacker conference on December 27, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

National Security

Union: Social Security numbers for every federal employee stolen in hack

Kelly Cohen · June 11, 2015 8:54 pm

One of the Obama administration's industrial policy initiatives was to subsidize the sale of at least $2 billion worth of corporate jets to foreign buyers. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Export-Import Bank Deal of the Day: Chinese state-owned bank gets $75M loan from U.S. to buy private jets from Goldman

Timothy P. Carney · June 10, 2015 4:51 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest answers a question in the press area of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

White House: OPM hackers’ identity may never be known

Nicole Duran · June 9, 2015 8:49 pm

Song Zhiyong, left, president of Air China, shakes hands with John Wojick, right, senior vice president of global sales and marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, after Wojick presented him with a leather flight jacket during a delivery ceremony for the first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental airplane to be delivered to Air China, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014, in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Beltway Confidential

Export-Import Bank 101: The ‘other countries are doing it’ argument

Timothy P. Carney · June 9, 2015 8:31 pm

Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management, participates in a discussion at the Women Veterans Career Development Forum at Women in Military Service for America Memorial on November 10, 2014 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for BPW Foundation)

OPM to brief Intel panel on data breach

Susan Ferrechio · June 9, 2015 4:59 pm

"What will it take for President Obama to open his eyes?" Mike Huckabee asked in a statement. "The way you deal with a bully on the playground is to punch them in the face and put them on the ground because the only thing they respect is power." (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Huckabee says it’s time to ‘hack China back’

Ariel Cohen · June 8, 2015 7:16 pm

Ex-Im's board approved a direct loan of $36,347,390 to China's State Development Bank so the China Nuclear Corporation could buy "steam turbines and auxiliaries" from Westinghouse to build the second phase of the Qinshan power plant. (AP Photo)Â

Export-Import Bank Deal of the Day: $36M direct loan to Chinese nuclear proliferators

Timothy P. Carney · June 8, 2015 5:33 pm

At the news of the Japanese acceptance of the Allied conditions, G.I.'s, go wild on Paris Boulevard, swarm over trucks, dance, wave flags of all nations, and cheer in France on August 23, 1945. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)

American exceptionalism derives from outperforming rivals, not apologizing to them

Dan Hannan · June 8, 2015 5:00 am

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the 69th session of the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Fixing the U.N.

Kim Holmes · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

The phalanx of national flag receives inspection in a parade in Beijing of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of China on Oct. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Huang Jingwen)

Rethinking the Asian Century

Derek Scissors, Nicholas Eberstadt, Sadanand Dhume, alex-coblin, Dan Blumenthal · June 8, 2015 4:01 am