Tag: China

President Trump lays out a national security strategy that envisions nations in perpetual competition, reverses Obama-era warnings on climate change, and de-emphasizes multinational agreements. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

‘America is coming back’: Trump says new national security strategy heralds the nation’s resurgence

Jamie McIntyre · December 18, 2017 7:48 pm

President Trump says his new national security strategy puts "America First." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump blames predecessors for national security failures

Gabby Morrongiello · December 18, 2017 7:34 pm

Former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will head up a $1 billion investment fund for China's commercial trading infrastructure. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Beltway Confidential

Adding David Cameron to its bench, China strengthens its grip over Britain

Tom Rogan · December 18, 2017 7:01 pm

President Trump is unveiling his National Security Strategy on Monday. Below are five things you need to know about the new document. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

5 things you should know about Trump’s new national security strategy

Jamie McIntyre · December 17, 2017 5:01 am

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attended a high-level Security Council meeting on the situation in North Korea on Friday at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

National Security

Russia rejects Rex Tillerson’s charge that it uses North Korean ‘slave’ laborers

Joel Gehrke · December 15, 2017 10:06 pm

"China has made greater efforts and paid a higher price than anyone else," Wu said, according to a U.N. translator. "It is irresponsible to doubt what China has done." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

National Security

China: Use of force against North Korea is ‘unacceptable’

Joel Gehrke · December 15, 2017 5:10 pm

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson questioned the commitment of China and Russia, during a high level Security Council meeting on the situation in North Korea at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Rex Tillerson questions commitment of Russia, China to rein in North Korea

Joel Gehrke · December 15, 2017 4:06 pm

Former University of California, Los Angeles, basketball player LiAngelo Ball said he wouldn't have thanked President Trump for his release from a Chinese jail if he had not been told to by the college. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

LiAngelo Ball says UCLA forced him to thank Trump

Katie Leach · December 14, 2017 6:13 am

Protesters hold copies of the Cumhuriyet newspaper with headlines in Turkish reading: 'We want justice" and placards with pictures of arrested staff, as they protest against a trial of journalists and staff from the newspaper, accused of aiding terror organizations, outside a court in Silivri, Turkey. This case has added to concerns over rights and freedoms in Turkey; the Committee to Protect Journalists' annual report states it has jailed the most reporters in 2017 at 73 total and takes that title for the second year in a row. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Record-high 262 journalists imprisoned around the world in 2017

Anna Giaritelli · December 13, 2017 8:01 pm

The key is to get China to move the needle. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

Praising China and coddling Kim, Tillerson harms US policy on North Korea

Tom Rogan · December 13, 2017 5:15 pm

And the 2017 Hypocrisy of the Year Award Goes To . . .

Irwin M. Stelzer · December 13, 2017 4:50 pm

After Secretary of State Rex Tillerson seemed to soften his tone about talks between the U.S. and North Korea, the White House pushed back and said President Trump's positions "have not changed." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House pumps brake after Rex Tillerson says no ‘precondition’ for North Korea talks

Daniel Chaitin · December 13, 2017 12:56 am