Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday told NATO leaders that the Pentagon is launching a six-month review of U.S. force posture and basing in Europe designed to ensure that America's allies eventually take the lead role in their own defense.
At least seven Chinese developers now produce systems with powerful capabilities such as coding, reasoning, multimodal recognition, and agentic tasks downloadable by anyone in the world.
The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development spent $1.2 billion on programs designed to counter Chinese influence around the world but failed to evaluate whether the programs were effective, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin is hosting leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at a meeting Wednesday that seeks to bolster business and other ties with members of the regional bloc.
Protesters blocked copper exports from a huge Rio Tinto mine in Mongolia on Wednesday, partially cutting off the supply of a mineral vital to China's renewable energy ambitions.
Attempts by China to exert pressure or influence on other countries to limit Taiwan's access to international events has become "the new normal," the island's foreign minister said Wednesday.
The Pentagon will offer a conditional $500 million loan to a U.S. company at the forefront of rare earth element processing, the latest step in the Defense Department's push to shore up the key domestic supply chains crucial to modern electronics, advanced weapons and military technology, defense officials said Tuesday.
Chinese ruler Xi Jinping's visit to North Korea for meetings with Kim Jong-un attracted no shortage of coverage from Chinese and North Korean media.
The commander of the Indo-Pacific Command has warned Congress that the danger of war with China is growing and the U.S. military urgently needs new arms and capabilities to prevent a conflict, according to a report to Congress obtained by The Washington Times.
Starbucks' South Korean operation said Monday it will close all of its stores nationwide early on June 22 for mandatory history and social sensitivity training as it reels from backlash following a marketing campaign that was widely perceived as mocking victims of a brutal military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1980.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in the Philippines on Tuesday that Europe is worried over tensions in the disputed South China Sea where a major flare-out could endanger freedom of navigation as has happened in the Strait of Hormuz.
Markets in Seoul and Tokyo surged Monday on news that the U.S. and Iran agreed to end hostilities in the Middle East.
Taiwan's intelligence agency said on Sunday it is establishing an information-reporting channel for Chinese nationals to offer tips securely, at a time when tensions between Beijing and the self-ruled island remain elevated.
From the outset, China wasn't included when major powers gathered in 1975 at a chateau outside Paris to fix the slumping global economy, the first of what have become annual summits by the G7 club of wealthy nations to forward their interests.
Ralph DeFalco III, former deputy director of intelligence at the National Joint Operations and Intelligence Center, joins the show to talk about his new book, "The Counterfeit," set in an alternate future in which China defeats the U.S. in a Pacific conflict.
Japan and the Philippines recently announced maritime boundary negotiations in waters that China claims overlap with areas east of Taiwan.
China is engaged in a covert influence campaign to prevent the development of U.S. data centers needed for artificial intelligence capabilities, according to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
When I served at the CIA, analysts were often asked to prognosticate about a foreign adversary's plans.
Chinese hackers are increasing cyberattacks aimed at stealing advanced artificial intelligence technology in the United States, according to a report by the security company CrowdStrike.
Federal authorities shut down 13 internet domains on Wednesday, which were said to be used by China for operations to obtain classified and sensitive U.S. government information, the Justice Department said.
