China's rapid military build-up is more expansive than anything seen since World War II, which means it's on track with its 2027 goal to be ready for a Taiwan invasion, said US Navy Adm. John Aquilino."All indications point to the PLA meeting President Xi Jinping's directive to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027," Aquilino wrote in a testimony to the US Armed Services House Committee."Furthermore, the PLA's actions indicate their ability to meet Xi's preferred timeline to unify Taiwan with...
US and British officials on Monday filed charges, imposed sanctions, and accused Beijing of a sweeping cyberespionage campaign that allegedly hit millions of people including lawmakers, academics and journalists, and companies including defense contractors. Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic nicknamed the hacking group Advanced Persistent Threat 31 or "APT31", calling it an arm of China's Ministry of State Security. Officials reeled off a laundry list of targets: White House staffers, US...
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A US congressman said during a visit to Taipei Thursday that Washington's partnership with Taiwan was key to countering China's "increasingly aggressive actions in the region".
China is building its military and nuclear arsenal on a scale not seen
China is building its military and nuclear arsenal on a scale not seen since World War II and all signs suggest it’s sticking to ambitions to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027, a top US admiral testified.
When it comes to the artificial intelligence that powers chatbots such as ChatGPT, China lags the United States. But when it comes to producing the scientists behind a new generation of humanoid technologies, China is pulling ahead. New research shows that China has by some metrics eclipsed the United States as the biggest producer of AI talent, with the country generating almost half the world's top AI researchers. By contrast, about 18% come from U.S. undergraduate institutions, according to...
Taiwan Confirms Presence Of US Green Berets On Islands Very Close To China's Coast Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng confirmed on Thursday the presence of US Army Special Forces soldiers in Kinmen, a group of islands that are controlled by Taiwan but located just off the coast of mainland China. Some parts of the Kinmen islands are just 2.5 miles away from the mainland Chinese city of Xiamen. The presence of US troops on the islands...
U.S. health officials are warning of an increase in illnesses caused by a bacteria that can cause meningitis and possible death
John Keller says workers facing onslaught for ‘dutifully and reliably doing their jobs’ as man given 30 months for threatsElection officials across the US are facing an onslaught of unfounded hostility for “dutifully and reliably doing their jobs”, the head of a federal taskforce set up to protect the election community from violent threats said on Monday.John Keller, who leads the day-to-day efforts of the election threats taskforce, based in Washington, told reporters that the wave of violent...
The next time you find yourself in a sweaty panic over the possibility that Donald Trump will become president again, recall that he has the political instincts of a drunk raccoon with its head stuck in a Pringles can. Saturday marks the 14th anniversary of the ACA, also known as Obamacare. And the Biden administration—which has made several significant, under-the-radar moves to improve Americans’ access to health care under the law—hasn’t been shy about clueing people into the threat that...