PANMUNJOM, South Korea — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged Russia and China on Tuesday to reverse course, and stop rewarding North Korea’s bad behavior and blocking U.N. scrutiny of the isolated country’s efforts to evade sanctions over its weapons programs. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the remarks during a visit to the Demilitarized Zone, a heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, which remain technically at war. Her trip to South Korea came after Russia...
U.S. officials said Chinese materials are filing critical gaps in Russia's defense production cycle and helping Moscow undertake the expansion of its defence industrial base.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The best-selling new book by Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario, realistically describes what a nuclear war between America and Russia would be like, though her “scenario” for it is wildly unrealistic. It starts with a North Korean missile that does exist, dropping onto the Pentagon a North Korean 1-megaton […]
The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since November 2022 in an effort to reduce regional tensions.
Semiconductors have emerged as a key battleground between the U.S. and Russia and the growing Cold War between the U.S. and ChinaThe chips are imperative for almost every type of technology out there today. But while American tech companies design the world's most advanced chips, none are actually made in the U.S. Almost all of them come from Taiwan. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, 52, said the market failed to get it right in the case of semiconductors. Almost all of America's advanced chips...
The U.S. Cyber Command’s top official insisted Wednesday efforts to deter China and Russia’s cyberattacks are working despite mounting hacks from those adversaries that have hammered American businesses and targeted critical infrastructure.
China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in its war against Ukraine, according to a U.S. assessment.
Data from S&P Global shows that many U.S. chip giants generate a larger share of revenue from China compared with the U.S. despite increasing trade barriers.
The world’s oldest boxer, Steve Ward, has called out John Fury. The Nottingham puncher, who holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest boxer to compete in a sanctioned bout at 64, c
It’s Time For A U.S. STEM Talent Strategy To Compete With China Authored by Dan Reed & Dario Gil via RealClear Wire, U.S. innovation fuels our economic strength and is vital for our national security. Released last earlier this month, the National Science Board’s congressionally mandated State of U.S. Science and Engineering Indicators report shows that an accelerating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) talent crisis is imperiling America’s economy and security. ...
Three years ago, on a tough day out with my kids, I barricaded myself in a toilet and wrote to Bluey’s creator with an idea. Now, it has become a reality. I couldn’t be more weirded outFor most people, the latest episode of Bluey – entitled Surprise – came as exactly that. Deliberately unannounced, it dropped like a Beyoncé album, ambushing viewers who were still coming to terms with the recent gut-wrenching, 28-minute masterpiece The Sign.However, I have spent the past three years waiting for...
MELBOURNE, Australia >> The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said on Tuesday that he was “very, very concerned” about China’s aggression toward Philippine forces near disputed islands in the South China Sea.