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Is War Imminent in the Taiwan Strait?

resident Joe Biden was asked at a CNN town hall earlier this week whether the United States would protect Taiwan if China

Space Force commander warns of China’s growing threat to U.S. in space

China is threatening to overtake the U.S. military as the most dominant force in space, says the second in command of the

China-India LAC: With all eyes on Taiwan, tensions are building on another Chinese frontier

China’s increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait may have grabbed all the headlines in recent weeks, but thousands of miles to

Russia and China are Already Winning the Nuclear Arms Race

he United States has experienced a nearly unbroken string of catastrophic intelligence failures in the last eighty years. The Japanese attack on

The Nuclear Balance Is Changing—and Not For The Better

he rise of China’s nuclear forces, added to Russian “exotic” new nuclear systems, is raising considerable concern in the United States for

The U.S.-China face-off is looking like the Cold War

President Biden hosted a summit meeting Friday that could turn out to be a watershed — but if you weren’t watching, you

Is China stepping up its ambition to supplant US as top superpower?

It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian,

After Kabul, China exploits perceptions of American weakness

“If the U.S. cannot even secure a victory in a rivalry with small countries, how much better could it do in a

As Russia Talks Nuclear Weapons with U.S., It Forges Closer Military Ties with China

As Russian diplomats discussed the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons with their counterparts from the United States, the heads of the Russian and

China’s New Nuclear Missile Silos Confirm U.S. Defense Officials’ Fears

he Department of Defense is warning of the “growing threat the world faces” from China’s seemingly expanding nuclear arsenal after U.S.-based researchers

The Massive Expansion of China’s Strategic Nuclear Capability

In late June 2021, The New York Times broke a very important story about Chinese construction of large numbers of ICBM silos

Taishan Nuclear Power Plant: Situation in China serious enough to warrant shutdown, warns French co-owner EDF

The French power company that co-owns a nuclear plant in China would shut it down if it could, due to damage to