Geopolitics

China might not delay seizing control of Taiwan

China is fully capable of a D-Day-level invasion of Taiwan and might not wait very long to unleash an attack as the communist regime of supreme leader Xi Jinping has designs on taking control of Taiwan's production of global semiconductors, analysts say. Read More.

Populist slams EU's march toward 'social credit system'

Another European has given a stirring address on the need to stand against elitist tyranny to preserve the God-given freedom of the human individual. Read More.

Flynn mocks ‘absolutely evil’ Covid fakery at G20

Leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Rome on Sunday vowed that they would spare no effort in getting everyone on the planet injected with the Covid vaccination. Read More.

Xi, world’s top polluter, skipping climate summit

Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping will not attend the summit. China is by far the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter. Russian strongman Vladimir Putin won't be there either. Russia's economy would collapse if the world decided to stop buying its fossil fuels. Read More.

Optimal U.S. posture on China is ‘moral clarity, straight talk’

“What should Americans do today about Communist China? Tell the truth. Always,” said strategist Miles Yu in a speech in San Jose on Oct. 17. Read More.

New Zealand's Ardern admits creating 2 classes of people

In the new normal New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gleefully admits she is creating two classes of people with different rights — those vaccinated against Covid-19 will have rights superior to those who are not. Read More.

Pompeo: Chinese influence ops active in every state

Intent on winning the information war in the United States, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has dispatched operatives to all 50 states, targeting federal, state and local governments, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. Read More.

China denies space launch vehicle deployed HGV warhead

Unnamed United States sources told the Financial Times that China’s FOBS had flown a simulated orbital strike test in August; it was launched by a Long March-2C (LM-2C) space launch vehicle; it deployed a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGV) warhead, and had missed its target by 24 miles. Read More.

Was China military on alert last November?

Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has justified his two calls late last year to his counterpart at China's People's Liberation Army by insisting that “a significant degree of intelligence” indicated the Chinese military was on alert for a surprise U.S. attack in the run-up to the November 2020 U.S. presidential election. Read More.

DoD software chief: U.S., Google lost AI war with China

The Pentagon’s software chief said he resigned because China has already won the artificial intelligence (AI) war. Read More.

Enemies well aware of disarray at the Pentagon

The U.S. military currently has "three times the number of four-star admirals and generals than we had during World War II — when the country was in an existential war for survival and when, by 1945, our active military personnel was almost nine times larger than the current armed forces," a prominent Hoover Institution scholar said. Read More.

Xi Jinping has not traveled abroad in 630 days

Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping has in his recent speeches stressed the "party core" and his ability to effectuate “self-purification and self-renewal” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), an analyst noted. Read More.

Beijing’s dangerous bullying of free Taiwan

Beijing’s communists are good at bullying; look at political crackdowns in prosperous Hong Kong, the suppression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, and of course China’s ongoing military harassment of Taiwan, a democratically ruled island which the communists claim as part of the People’s Republic of China. Read More.

Spy threat? Secret Service, FBI purchase Chinese drones

The Secret Service and FBI have purchased drones from a Chinese company which the Pentagon had previously determined poses a threat to U.S. national security, a report said. Read More.

China says Taiwan escalation a ‘declaration of sovereignty’

China on Oct. 4 carried out its largest incursion inside Taiwan’s air defense zone to date, sending 58 warplanes, including 12 nuclear-capable bombers, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said. Read More.