Geopolitics

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.

‘Big trouble’: Trump warns of war with China

The communist regime in China is primed to exploit the weakness it sees in Joe Biden and his administration, former President Donald Trump noted on Wednesday. Read More.

Transportation heads warn of supply chains ‘collapse’

World leaders were so consumed with lockdowns and travel bans amid the Covid pandemic that they failed to heed warnings that global supply chains were in jeopardy of collapsing, officials in the maritime, road, and aviation shipping industries said. Read More.

Military planes seen landing at Bagram Air Base

The strategically vital air base that Joe Biden abandoned to the Taliban has been re-opened and is being used by military aircraft, reports sa Read More.

Why a peace treaty poses a mortal threat to South Korea

Time is running out for President Moon Jae-In. He has barely more than half a year to leave a legacy in Korean and world history as the leader responsible for bringing permanent peace at last to Korea, North and South. Read More.

Report: Political prisoners fill 3 new N. Korea prison camps

For those who run afoul of North Korea’s rules against “non-socialist” activities, and others caught breaking Covid-19 quarantine protocols, the Kim Jong-Un regime has reportedly built new prison camps. Read More.

Déjà vu in Afghanistan: Obama’s Benghazi team is back

Team Biden's catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, which saw 13 American military personnel and nearly 200 Afghans killed in the terrorist bombing of Kabul airport and the bungled U.S. drone strike which killed ten members, including seven children, of an American-friendly Afghan family, elicited "an eerie sense of déjà vu," an analyst noted. Read More.

Milley calls undermined Trump's approach to China

Former U.S. officials say the Trump administration’s approach to China would have been “completely undermined” by Gen. Mark Milley’s unauthorized phone calls to China’s top general in which, according to a new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Milley said he would inform China of any U.S. attack. Read More.

Press not free in once-democratic South Korea

The South Korean courts and the government of leftist President Moon Jae-In have stepped up their crackdown on press freedom by imprisoning YouTube commentators who are critical of the regime or entities which support it, a report said. Read More.

Kabul bomber walked out of air base prison Biden abandoned

One of the terrorists who killed 13 U.S. military personnel and 169 Afghans in the bombings at Kabul airport walked away from the prison at Bagram Air Base after Joe Biden abandoned the base which held high strategic value, a report said. Read More.