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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… -
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Trump Administration to Terminate Visas for Chinese Students
The Trump administration is taking steps to terminate visas for Chinese students studying in the United States. “The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a post on X Wednesday evening. The… -
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The New Cold War With China
The threat to the United States from China is multifaceted, long-term, and aggressive. Whether it’s from military modernization to economic coercion, cyberwarfare to space competition, China’s national security challenge is global, and it targets U.S. interests, values, security, and standing in the world. While much of the focus of U.S. policymakers has been on the… -
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China’s Power Is a Virus
When a nation bears the blame for more than 7 million deaths worldwide, what is Washington going to do? More than 1.2 million Americans died as a result of a plague that began in China. Those staggering global and U.S. figures are the numbers reported to the World Health Organization. They make the COVID-19 pandemic… -
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‘WHO Is a Cheap Date,’ Expert Says of China’s $500 Million Pledge
China will give the World Health Organization $500 million, but “in terms of the contribution, the WHO is a cheap date,” Brett Schaefer says. “The Chinese donation is reportedly $500 million over five years,” Schaefer, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told The Daily Signal. “According to U.N. Chief Executives Board data, in 2023,… -
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A More Effective Way to Confront China’s Growing Aggression
One of the central weaknesses of the Biden administration’s national security policies was its reliance on the concept of “integrated deterrence” to prevent aggressive actions by the People’s Republic of China. The strategy entailed building robust alliances in the Indo-Pacific, forward-deploying greater numbers of U.S. military assets to the region, and a tighter integration of… -
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How Wall Street Loopholes Funnel US Capital to Chinese Communist Party
American investors are unwittingly funding Chinese Communist Party activities through Wall Street loopholes, according to a securities expert who recently testified before Congress. Chris Iacovella, CEO of the American Securities Association, told The Daily Signal these activities include “the internment of Uyghurs, funding [People’s Liberation Army] weapons systems, a cyber army that relentlessly attacks this… -
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Spies on Campus: Chinese Espionage Exposed at Stanford
The Chinese Communist Party is “orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford,” according to The Stanford Review. “In short, ‘there are Chinese spies at Stanford,’” the university’s independent student-run newspaper writes in an investigation published this week. After learning of multiple incidents of unusual behavior from a handful of Chinese students, or those… -
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House Panel Quizzes Bessent on DOGE, Tariff Talks, China
In an at times contentious hearing, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent testified before members of the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. But the hearing started off on a lighter note. In an initial humorous exchange near the beginning of his testimony, the treasury secretary corrected Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., when she asked him… -
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Will China Invade Taiwan? Expert Explains
China is ramping up its military preparations for a conflict against Taiwan, the commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says. Adm. Samuel J. Paparo spoke Friday at a conference at the McCain Institute in Arizona and referred to China being in a “rapid boil,” according to The Washington Times. “You know the metaphor of… -
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Safeguarding Students: Stopping China’s Infiltration of US Universities
America’s students deserve better than to be treated as pawns in the Chinese Communist Party’s long game to undermine our country. We can all agree that China does not have the best interests of American students in mind. Yet, thanks to lax enforcement and misplaced priorities from the Biden-Harris administration, billions of dollars have flowed… -
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New Secure Messaging Platform Offers Quantum-Resistant Defense Against Chinese Cyber Threats
A communications platform called Titanium Secure is positioning itself as a quantum-resistant defense against growing cyber threats from China and data harvesting by Big Tech companies. “We saw a need for conservatives to have their own platform where they could do several different things, and part of those was to secure communication and secure data,”…