President Biden will raise issues such as China’s recent stepped-up military coercion of Taiwan, human-rights abuses and Beijing’s weakening of the international order Monday at his first face-to-face, virtual summit with Chinese President …
Author: Bill Gertz
Biden administration rejects Chinese ‘Maoist’ demands for policy changes
The Biden administration has rejected as unserious appeals two lists of demands made by the Chinese government as preconditions for resetting ties, The Washington Times has learned. The lists were handed over to Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman …
House GOP members say VOA stonewalling probe of Persian service official
Seven House Republicans want the U.S. Agency for Global Media to explain why the agency’s director rehired a friend at the Voice of America who was slated for dismissal for improper activities. Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, ranking Republican on the House…
Milley calls Chinese hypersonic missile test ‘very significant’ breakthrough
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed Wednesday that China conducted a recent test of a hypersonic missile that circled the globe from pole to pole to test the potential delivery of a nuclear weapon. The Pentagon’s top mili…
Trump presidential commission weighed $10 trillion from China for pandemic damage
President Trump, before the 2020 election, considered setting up a blue-ribbon panel of experts to study the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic along with seeking as much as $10 trillion in reparations from Beijing for the damage, according to a book by f…
Ex-Air War College professor with access to secrets pleads guilty in China case
A civilian professor at the Air Force’s Air War College with a secret level security clearance pleaded guilty this week to lying to federal agents about his contacts with a government official in China. Xiaoming Zhang, who is no longer employed at the …
Climate reports outline Biden administration fears on global warming
Small increases in global average temperatures since the 1800s pose risks of increased political instability in the developing world, possible food and water shortages, and potentially more military competition in the Arctic but do not represent existe…
China blames U.S. for poor military-to-military ties
China’s military is blaming the United States for poor military-to-military relations after the U.S. and Chinese militaries held their first video conference last month. Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Sr. Col. Wu Qian, who heads the…
Biden goes easy on China at U.N.
President Biden this week signaled he is backing off the hardline U.S. policies of the Trump administration in dealing with China and reverting to the more accommodationist approach of earlier Democratic and Republican administrations. At the United Na…
Congress urged to revive State probe of COVID origin, Chinese bio-weapons push
Congress should require a new investigation by the State Department’s arms compliance office into the possible role of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a report by two former State Department offi…