Tag: China

According to this year's Arctic Report Card, "Arctic paleo-reconstructions, which extend back millions of years, indicate that the magnitude and pace of the 21st century sea-ice decline and surface ocean warming is unprecedented in at least the last 1,500 years and likely much longer." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Energy and Environment

NOAA: Sea ice melting amid second warmest year in Arctic

John Siciliano · December 12, 2017 6:02 pm

President Trump should work with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish free-enterprise zones in India that will allow U.S. companies to make profits and Indian workers to find domestic jobs. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Trump must woo India, and right now

Tom Rogan · December 12, 2017 2:50 pm

Faraday Future's FF 91 electric car is unveiled during a news conference at CES International in Las Vegas. The International Energy Agency reported this year that electric vehicle sales worldwide reached 750,000, which is around one percent of sales. That's about the same for the United States. But in some countries, such as Norway, the penetration rates are as high as 29 percent. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)

Energy and Environment

Rise of electric vehicles threatens oil industry

John Siciliano · December 12, 2017 5:01 am

"I take Beijing's threats to use military force against Taiwan seriously," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Monday. "That's why I urge both the president and Congress to accelerate the sale of defensive weapons to Taiwan, as well as to bring Taiwan into joint military exercises with the United States." (AP)

National Security

Trump should defy China’s threat to invade Taiwan over American cooperation: Senators

Joel Gehrke · December 12, 2017 12:02 am

The opening ceremony for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games will be held on Feb. 9, 2018, in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Due to security concerns, however, there's now a question if U.S. athletes will attend. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Winter Olympics — the home of the brave must not stay home

Washington Examiner · December 10, 2017 5:01 am

In Washington and other capitals around the western world, commentators and think tankers are increasingly optimistic that Germany will assume the mantle of global leadership, given President Trump's stances on foreign policy. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel has neither the means nor the ambition to assume a position of global leadership. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Beltway Confidential

Is Germany the new leader of the free world? Not a chance.

Tom Rogan · December 5, 2017 9:17 pm

When President Trump visited China in early November and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, many in the U.S. foreign policy establishment used the occasion to gripe that he was ceding global leadership to China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Beltway Confidential

Restraint, humility, and the ‘ungrateful fool’ that is LaVar Ball

Ying Ma · December 5, 2017 3:28 am

Is China’s Great Firewall a Political Tool or an Economic Weapon?

Ethan Epstein · December 4, 2017 11:58 am

President Trump the Chinese envoy "seems to have had no impact" on the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "Hard to believe his people, and the military, put up with living in such horrible conditions. Russia and China condemned the launch," he tweeted. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump: China’s envoy had ‘no impact’ on North Korea missile program

Anna Giaritelli · November 30, 2017 12:45 pm

"The dictator of North Korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war, not farther from it," Ambassador Nikki Haley told the U.N. Security Council. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

National Security

Nikki Haley: World ‘closer to war’ with North Korea

Joel Gehrke · November 29, 2017 10:50 pm

It’s Over

Ethan Epstein · November 29, 2017 5:05 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said President Trump is still "committed to working with China" despite North Korea's latest missile test. ""China knows what a serious threat this is." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Sarah Sanders: Trump still intent on working with China despite North Korea missile test

Anna Giaritelli · November 29, 2017 4:48 pm