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China’s Quiet Infiltration of America
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk about our two cold wars, the one that we won against Russia… -
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As US Competes With China, Critical Mining Bill Heads to Senate
The House passed new legislation to accelerate permitting and domestic hard rock mining on federal land as America looks to compete with China on mining critical minerals. The Critical Mineral Dominance Act passed on Wednesday and now heads to the Senate. “In order for our domestic mining industry to grow, the industry needs policy, regulatory, and permitting… -
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What Maduro’s Capture Says About a Similar Raid by China on Taiwan
On Jan. 3, the United States launched Operation Absolute Resolve, capturing wanted drug kingpin and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Perhaps in response, on Jan. 15, the Chinese government revealed footage of the People’s Liberation Army conducting a mock decapitation strike training exercise. Such a threat by Beijing should be taken seriously, but how likely is… -
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AI Wargame Points to Catastrophe for US
Heritage Foundation researchers harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to argue in a new report that the U.S. is not prepared for a war with China. “We believe a war is coming,” says Rob Greenway, director of the Allison Center for National Security at the D.C. think tank. “We believe we are not prepared for… -
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Why the US Is Worried About China’s Military Drills
On Dec. 29, Washington, D.C., woke up to an array of news stories, but the one meriting greatest attention is China’s surprise military drills around Taiwan. These drills are not merely exercises—they are full dress rehearsals for a blockade and invasion of Taiwan. Deterring such an invasion and larger conflict is in America’s vital national… -
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Why China Rejects Trump’s ‘G2’
In the coming year, President Donald Trump may meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping up to a half dozen times, an intense period of high-level diplomacy amid unprecedented mutual trade and supply chain warfare with China. The stage was set by the leaders’ Oct. 2025 summit in Korea, which Trump described as a convening of the… -
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The Inconvenient Truths Within Trump’s New National Security Strategy
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Recently, the Trump administration, as most administrations do at the beginning of their four-year term, issued… -
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What Do We Do About China?
The United States is confronting an existential threat—but not the kind defined by ships on the horizon or missiles in the air. The danger instead stems from a waning sense of national purpose and a growing doubt about America’s global role. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the emerging geopolitical alignment linking China, Russia… -
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Don’t Go Wobbly on China
As the sun rises on a new Trump-era geopolitical chapter, Washington confronts a defining choice: Will America view the People’s Republic of China and its regnant Communist Party through the rose-colored lens of transaction and diplomacy, or will it soberly recognize Beijing as America’s foremost geopolitical adversary in a multigenerational cold war? The stakes could… -
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Climate Litigation Hands China a Strategic Victory While Harming America
For years, climate activists have insisted that America must undergo a rapid, top-down “green transition,” pursuing sweeping mandates that Congress has repeatedly rejected. Unable to legislate their agenda, they have turned to the courts, a strategy that has broad national security implications. This week’s Washington Post blockbuster report reveals one particularly stark consequence of our… -
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Trump’s National Security Strategy Lays Out a Pragmatic China Strategy
The White House has released a new National Security Strategy whose central purpose is unambiguous: to ensure the United States remains the preeminent global power. At its core is a new and pragmatic China strategy. The document opens with a blunt indictment of the past three decades of American policy, especially on China. Successive administrations—Republican and Democratic alike—embraced the delusion that flooding… -
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NDAA Puts China ‘On Notice,’ Lawmaker Says
The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act is putting China “on notice,” according to a Republican member of Congress. The large bill that funds the Department of War and America’s defense priorities includes legislation that restricts U.S. investments into China. The Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security Act is included in the $900 billion annual defense bill and places restrictions on a “country of concern,” including… -
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China Has Secret Police in the US. This Congresswoman Is Trying to Stop It.
In December 2024, Chen Jinping, a 60-year-old Manhattan resident, pleaded guilty to opening and operating a secret Chinese police station for China’s Ministry of Public Security in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood. Chen was arrested with “Harry” Lu Jianwang in April 2023, following an FBI investigation into the outpost. Though these arrests were the first of their… -
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Trump Announces Trade Deal and Drops Plans to Revoke Chinese Student Visas
President Donald Trump says the U.S. has reached a trade deal with China and is ditching plans to revoke Chinese student visas. “Our deal with China is done, subject to final approval with President Xi [Jinping] and me,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday. “Full magnets, and any necessary rare earths, will be supplied,… -
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Iran Turns to China for Ballistic Missile Materials as Nuclear Threat Grows
While negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program appear to have made little progress, Iran is further arming itself, a new report indicates. Iran has ordered materials for ballistic missiles from China as it seeks to bolster its military amid ongoing talks with the U.S. over its nuclear program, according to The Wall Street Journal. China… -
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FBI Says Chinese Nationals Smuggling Dangerous Biological Fungus Into US
Two Chinese nationals have been charged after smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen called Fusarium graminearum into the U.S., according to the Justice Department. Scientific literature classifies the fungus “as a potential agroterrorism weapon.” Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, are citizens of China and have been charged with “with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the… -
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US Manufacturing Victim to ‘Giant Sucking Sound’ Created by China
American manufacturing has fallen victim to a “giant sucking sound,” according to an expert on energy and climate. There is a “a giant sucking sound of energy-intensive manufacturing leaving the West and going to China,” Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal…. -
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Chinese National Charged With Illegal Voting Flees US
The FBI announced that the Chinese national charged with illegally voting in Michigan last year fled the country, and reportedly with a different passport than the one he was ordered to surrender to authorities. The FBI’s criminal complaint says former University of Michigan student Haoxiang Gao used his student ID to register to vote and… -
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W.Va. Lawmaker Aims to Ban Chinese Nationals From Student Visas
Rep. Riley Moore in March introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would halt the issuance of student visas to Chinese nationals. The West Virginia Republican’s bill has taken on new relevance in recent weeks as the Trump administration has sought to revoke the student visas for international students attending Harvard University. Chinese… -
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Trump is Right to Revoke Visas for Chinese Students Linked to the CCP
America’s top schools need to stop catering to hostile foreign powers looking to infiltrate the United States and focus more on building a talent pool here at home. That’s my take from Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement Thursday that the U.S. will begin aggressively revoking visas for Chinese college students connected to the Chinese Communist Party or who…