Tag: China

Christopher Wray told Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., that Chinese "collectors" of intelligence are targeting academic institutions throughout the country. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

FBI director: Chinese spies ‘a whole-of-society’ threat to US

Joel Gehrke · February 13, 2018 11:01 pm

In this 2018 image made from video by North Korea's KRT, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, attends a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. While Kim Jong Un is certainly a danger to anyone in the North Korean elite who tries to usurp his authority, Kim has proven to be an uncanny operator who understands when to pull back before crossing an irredeemable red line. (KRT via AP Video)

Beltway Confidential

What happens with North Korea after the Olympics?

Daniel DePetris · February 13, 2018 8:01 pm

Rep. Mike Conaway's measure currently has 15 cosponsors, most of whom sit on the Intelligence or Armed Services committees, or both. Three were added in the past few days.

Lawmakers spar over how much to punish Chinese firms

Charlie Mitchell · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

In this 2017 image made from video, seen though an interior window, employees work in the offices of Secureworks in Atlanta. A bipartisan coalition in Congress is working to tweak the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which bans access to computers without their owner's permission, so that companies that have been hacked can disrupt cyberattacks. (AP Photo/Marina Hutchinson)

‘Active cyber defense’ or vigilantism?

Steven Nelson · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

"We cannot continue to be taken advantage of by other countries," the president told attendees during a White House event on infrastructure. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump threatens ‘reciprocal tax’ on imports to balance trade

Gabby Morrongiello · February 12, 2018 6:56 pm

Pope Francis's papacy has emphasized care for the weak, but he has remained quiet when it comes to the strong men leading dictatorships around the globe. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis must make the church a beacon of truth again

Washington Examiner · February 11, 2018 5:01 am

Thursday's strikes on training camps in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan's border region were carried out by a U.S. B-52 long-range heavy bomber, which used precision weapons to take out three separate camps. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Meet ETIM, the terrorist group the US just bombed in Afghanistan

Jamie McIntyre · February 10, 2018 5:01 am

President Trump, stop the appeasement of North Korea

Washington Examiner · February 10, 2018 12:01 am

An LNG carrier ship sits docked at the Cheniere Energy Inc. terminal. Cheniere Energy agreed to supply China's state-owned energy company with 1.2 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year through 2043. (Lindsey Janies/Bloomberg)

Energy and Environment

US’ largest natural gas exporter announces huge deal with China

John Siciliano · February 9, 2018 9:23 pm

America’s aluminum industry needs Trump’s fair-trade vision

Mike Bless · February 9, 2018 5:01 am

President Trump approved tariffs on solar panels last month based on a trade commission recommendation made in response, in part, to a petition by the U.S. subsidiary of the German company SolarWorld. (Martin Leissl/Bloomberg)

Energy and Environment

Lawsuits start tumbling in as Trump’s solar tariffs go into effect

John Siciliano · February 8, 2018 10:17 pm

The Tiananmen Square massacre wasn't a military parade. It was the wholesale slaughter of roughly 10,000 Chinese demonstrators after they gathered to protest their Communist government's authoritarian rule. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener)

Beltway Confidential

This is quite possibly the stupidest reaction to Trump’s proposed military parade

Becket Adams · February 7, 2018 8:20 pm