Lawmakers Urge Trump to Bolster US Cyber Offense to Face China’s Hacking
The lawmakers point to four years of ‘brazen attacks’ by China’s cyber proxies that target government institutions and citizens with ’near impunity.’ A group...
DOJ Files Emergency Motion After Judge Blocks Trump From Invoking Alien Enemies Act
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other Justice Department officials say that a federal judge exceeded his authority with his decision. U.S. Attorney General...
World’s Costliest Baby Formula Has Bugs, Metal Wires, and Fake Cancer Drugs; China Disregards Life
In November 2021, a woman in Liaoning, China discovered a dead insect in an opened can of infant formula just days after she started...
Economist Robin Xing on the revival of China’s animal spirits and surviving Trump 2.0
Robin Xing, chief China economist at Morgan Stanley, keeps a close eye on the Chinese economy’s progress and trade tensions with the United States....
How small powers can survive the era of transactional diplomacy
The international landscape in early 2025 defies easy categorisation or prediction. As conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza show, the rules-based international order appears to...
Trump Signs Bill Funding Government for 6 Months, Avoiding a Shutdown
Several Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the bill, which funds the government through the end of the fiscal year. President Donald Trump on March...
1,300 Voice of America Staff Members Placed on Leave, Lake Says Agency ‘Not Salvageable’
VOA director Michael Abramowitz said, ‘for the first time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced.’ About 1,300 journalists, producers,...
Dismantling of Education Department Is Underway, Drawing Legal Challenges
The Trump administration is on track for sweeping changes to public education within the first 100 days of its second term but legal challenges...
Netanyahu seeks to oust Israel’s domestic security service chief Ronen Bar
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service that he will ask the government to approve...