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Gallagher, Comer Sound Alarm on China’s Spying on Military Bases
The United States must take more precautions to protect its military bases from spying by the Chinese Communist Party, two House chairmen told The Daily Signal on Monday. “The CCP continues to surveil and probe American defenses even here on U.S. soil,” Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese… -
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This Time It’s China Targeting Pearl Harbor, Records Show
By the time police responded to a call shortly before 10 a.m. regarding a Chinese man and woman conducting surveillance near a security entrance of the historic Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, the two fled in what police identified as a 2021 silver Nissan Altima, with unidentified plates. The two suspects had been “capturing digital… -
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Biden Admin Launches Narcotics ‘Working Group’ With China
The Biden administration has formed a “working group” with the Chinese Communist Party to counter a growing global narcotics and fentanyl crisis, the State Department announced. Multiple U.S. government departments—including State, Homeland Security, Justice, and Treasury—will work with Beijing to counter the global production and trafficking of narcotics, specifically fentanyl, according to a press release Thursday from… -
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The Defense Department’s China Military Power Report: The Threat Is Worse Than Advertised
The Defense Department’s latest annual “China Military Power Report” gets a lot right. It accurately identifies the scope of China’s global ambitions and many of the structural changes being implemented by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to make China the preeminent military power in Asia and the Pacific. Even so, the report appears to undersell the threat posed… -
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Let’s Not Hand China a Victory in Pacific
It has been about 80 years since the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, a bloody struggle against Japan during World War II that cost thousands of Americans their lives. Today, Congress is poised to squander their sacrifice for freedom by granting China a generational opportunity to severely undermine America’s security position in the Pacific. At issue are three long-standing,… -
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What’s China Hiding? New Report Exposes Truth About China’s Deceptions
From covering up the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to using dangerous apps like TikTok to compromise Americans’ personal information, the Chinese Communist Party has long cloaked its nefarious activities in secrecy. As a new report from The Heritage Foundation assesses, China’s lack of transparency is part of a larger strategy to deceive its adversaries…. -
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House Panel Scrutinizes Key Player in Biden Family Business With China
A key player in a joint venture between Hunter Biden and one of Communist China’s largest private companies, CEFC China Energy, is scheduled to be questioned Thursday as part of the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. That key figure, Mervyn Yan, is a private equity manager and investor based in New York who… -
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China Expert Outlines Taiwanese President-Elect Lai Ching-te’s Daunting Challenges Ahead
Taiwan’s new president has his work cut out for him, Michael Cunningham says. “He’s not in an easy position,” Cunningham, a research fellow in the Asian Studies Center of The Heritage Foundation, says of President-elect Lai Ching-te. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) “Beijing deeply distrusts” the political party Lai… -
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Terror Groups and China Thrive, US Influence Declines, Amidst African Instability
As the Middle East is again consumed by wars of terrorist aggression, Africa, too, is experiencing a rise in violence. Despite the region receiving billions in U.S. foreign aid annually, groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have gained ground throughout the continent. As of 2023, the Sahel region—a broad sub-Saharan swathe of land… -
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Italy’s Prime Minister Wisely Spurns Deal With China
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni delivered a Christmas present earlier this month to a free and prosperous Europe when she dumped Italy’s deal with China on its Belt and Road Initiative. Despite assurances from the center-left Democratic Party that initially orchestrated the deal, Italy, like most of the 17 other countries in the European Union that signed agreements, never saw many… -
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Amid Security Concerns of Lawmakers, Chinese-Made Battery Installation Removed From Marine Base
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and more than two dozen other Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin earlier this month, demanding the removal of a Duke Energy-supplied Chinese battery installation at the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and demanding an investigation into whether similar installations have been… -
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Chinese Drug Dealers Use Risqué Ads to Sell Narcotics, Fentanyl Ingredients on US Social Media
Accounts claiming to represent Chinese drug manufacturers are using provocative images of women to advertise narcotics and fentanyl precursors on U.S. social media, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of hundreds of English and Chinese-language social media posts. The Daily Caller News Foundation identified several dozen LinkedIn accounts claiming to be saleswomen representing… -
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America Must Confront China for Ramping Up Belligerence in South China Sea
Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week told the communist regime’s coast guard simply to enforce maritime law, but we all know what that really means—and it has nothing to do with upholding the rule of law on the high seas. Chinese vessels collided last month with a Philippine resupply boat and a Philippine coast guard… -
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China-Linked Company Directly Paid Joe Biden, Latest Released Bank Records Show
A Hunter Biden business entity tied to China made direct monthly payments to Joe Biden in the months leading up to the former vice president’s announcement that he would run for president in 2020, according to newly released subpoenaed bank records from the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The monthly payments came from Owasco PC,… -
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America’s Indo-Pacific Allies Willing to Be Force Multipliers for US to Help Deter China
America is not the only country with an interest in countering the threat of an aggressive Communist China that’s intent on world domination. Its allies in the Indo-Pacific are keenly interested in preserving a free and open region as well. In a meeting last week between Australia and India, Australia’s defense minister said that for… -
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‘Communism Is Not Only Here, It’s Going Mainstream,’ Survivor of Mao’s China Says
Xi Van Fleet, who lived under the bloody communist rule of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, says the goal of her new book “is to lay out the parallels of the two Cultural Revolutions that I experienced—[the one] 50 years ago and the one I experience with millions of Americans right now, the woke revolution.” “And… -
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US Business Execs Give Chinese Dictator Multiple Standing Ovations During Exclusive Dinner
Following President Joe Biden’s and Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s summit on Wednesday, the communist dictator, whose government has perpetrated extensive, well-documented crimes against humanity, was warmly received with multiple standing ovations at a lavish dinner that evening in San Francisco attended by prominent U.S. business executives and government officials. The dinner, which was hosted by the U.S.-China Business… -
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Biden Admin Removes Restrictions on China Purchasing American Technology That Could Be Used Against US
The Biden administration recently removed restrictions on 27 Chinese companies that prevented those companies from purchasing American technology that could potentially be turned against the U.S. A detailed examination by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reveals connections between several of these companies and the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance and military programs. The U.S. Bureau of… -
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$40,000 Check to Biden Linked to Chinese Energy Company
A key House committee on Wednesday released a copy of a $40,000 check it says was laundered through a China company to Joe Biden in 2017, about eight months after he left office as vice president. The check to Biden dated September 2017, a copy of which was released by the House Oversight and Accountability… -
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Follow the Numbers: China Steps Up Military Activity Near Taiwan
China's recent military activity around Taiwan reached new heights after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting in April with then-U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. This increase in China's military activity and long-term trends point to troubling times ahead, and our military and political leaders need to be ready. With wars in Ukraine and Israel grabbing so…