In the latest warning underscoring the danger to U.S. critical infrastructure from Chinese hackers, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a conference in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday that Beijing is poised “for just the right moment” to unleash chaos upon the American grid. The remarks were made at a security forum at Vanderbilt University, in which […]
Amid increasing suspicion of China’s aggression, the leaders of the United States and Japan are touting an “enhanced” security agreement. “Our alliance we have with Japan is purely defensive in nature,” President Joe Biden said during a Rose Garden press conference Wednesday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. “It’s not aimed at any one nation […]
There aren’t many areas where I agree with the Biden administration but the CHIPS Act is one that I genuinely hope will work. The ACT passed both the House and Senate with bipartisan support and was signed into law in 2022. The idea was to award grants to chipmakers willing to build new facilities here […]
It was a terrible quake that struck near Hualien City, Taiwan, just as the workday was beginning on Wednesday. Details aren’t yet complete but, so far, nine people have been reported killed, over a thousand more injured, and 152 trapped in damaged buildings, quarries, and other places. At 7.4 […]
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the east coast of Taiwan this morning, just before 8am local time. It was the strongest quake to hit the island in 25 years. Early reports say that 9 people were killed and more than 900 were injured. The city closest to the epicenter was Hualien, which has a population […]
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan on Wednesday, killing at least nine and at least initially sending populations in neighboring Pacific countries scrambling for higher ground. Among the dead, according to The Associated Press, were three hikers who were killed by a rockslide at Taiwan’s Taroko National Park, in the northeast part of the island […]
Chinese coast guard ships hit a Philippine supply boat with water cannons Saturday in the latest confrontation near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing injuries to its navy crew members and heavy damage to the wooden vessel, Philippine officials said. The United States and Japan immediately expressed their support to the Philippines, […]
Things may be heating up around the Strait of Taiwan as China continues to rattle its saber over the island nation, and now the U.S. has stepped up its presence in the area. Taiwan has now acknowledged that it is hosting U.S. troops on some of its outlying islands, a fact that is sure to […]
Last weekend Sen. J.D. Vance gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he made the case for negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. But his argument went beyond that. In fact, the main point he was trying to make was that America needed to pivot from a focus on Europe […]
China has deployed four or five warships near Taiwan, an island that China considers to be part of its own territory. Newsweek reported the deployments Friday, but did so somewhat confusingly, citing the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun as reporting the presence of four warships but then listing the location of five. “According to the report, […]
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