Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese President Xi Jinping met, and the Biden reelection campaign was set to ramp up this week. These stories highlight the rundown for Monday, June 19, 2023. Blinken meets with Xi Jinping U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Chinese president Xi Jinping as the two attempted to…

China is expanding its spying capabilities with a focus on the U.S. China has reached a secret agreement with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the ground, according to the Wall Street Journal. News of the agreement comes after the U.S. shot down Chinese spy balloons hovering over the country’s military bases earlier…

Suspected Chinese spies tried to infiltrate military bases in Alaska. According to an Army officer who spoke with USA Today, they were pretending to be tourists.  There have been similar encounters of tourists attempting to enter military bases in Alaska. Oftentimes, the incidents are ruled as mistakes. But other times, the incidents are found to…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has officially announced his run for president in 2024, overcoming technical difficulties on a Twitter Spaces event with the social media company’s CEO Elon Musk to make the announcement. And the U.S. government along with Microsoft have issued a warning regarding Chinese malware that is targeting critical American infrastructure. These stories…

China has a new ambassador to the United States. His name is Xie Feng. He spent time in Washington earlier in his career, and was most recently the vice foreign minister in charge of overseeing policy toward the U.S. Both China and the U.S. hope Xie’s experience will help improve diplomatic relations between the two…

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation to reform America’s intelligence classification system. The group said changes need to be made to reduce overclassification and prevent the mishandling of the most sensitive classified documents.  “We’ve got a byzantine, bizarre, bureaucratic system that has not kept up with the times, has not moved at all to…

Classified Pentagon documents leaked on social media continue to resurface and spill U.S. military secrets. The latest was uncovered by the Washington Post. It describes a threat to the U.S. that the military has been monitoring. That threat is new spy drone technology from China that would dramatically enhance China’s ability to conduct surveillance operations…

Authorities arrested two Chinese nationals on Monday, April 17, for running a secret, illegal police station in New York City. The Department of Justice has accused Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping of helping “monitor and intimidate” Chinese dissidents in the United States. China has since called the accusations “groundless” and said the operation was simply…

When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress in March, he claimed the platform — owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance — doesn’t share user data with the Chinese government. Lawmakers weren’t buying it and neither have dozens of countries around the world. Congress, the U.S. military and more than half of U.S. states…