All posts tagged "China"

The Trump administration is facing a "devastating" threat from China after a package containing F-35 fighter jet parts was diverted to Hong Kong.

On Thursday, former Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh explained during an appearance on CNN that the Trump administration should be concerned about China's ability to reproduce and reverse-engineer the F-35 after the faux pas.

"This is incredibly damaging and embarrassing for the United States," Singh said. "This is our most sophisticated aircraft platform that our military uses, and the proprietary information and some of the parts that were rerouted can be devastating, not only to reverse-engineer, but these are the fighters that can evade detection."...

President Donald Trump will hand China a victory when he hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington this week, a Trump biographer predicted.

In a Tuesday episode of "Inside Trump's Head," Michael Wolff said Trump needs a win so badly that he will try to flatter his way to one. The strategy will leave Xi with the upper hand because Trump "doesn't listen to anyone," Wolff warned.

"He needs good news," Wolff said. "And his way of getting good news is not to negotiate a good deal. His way of getting good news is to agree. I mean, so he goes into flattery mode."...

A bombshell report that faulty artificial intelligence nearly pushed the U.S. military into a confrontation with China sparked alarm and outrage across social media Friday.

A chatbot falsely concluded that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying components for a nuclear weapons program, according to an exclusive CNN report. Military planes were already airborne and armed personnel were preparing to board the vessel when officials discovered the error.

“This is a truly alarming story,” CNN anchor Jim Sciutto posted on X....

Secretary of State Marco Rubio's three-country tour through Latin America this week backfired despite visiting nations led by Trump-friendly presidents, Politico reported.

According to a Thursday report, Rubio visited Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru over three days. All three countries are governed by right-wing leaders who campaigned on combating crime and partnering closely with Washington, Politico noted. In Colombia, he spoke of a "golden era" between the two countries.

Politico reported that the visit exposed sharp tensions inside the countries, where critics and commentators accused Rubio of pressuring governments to work against their own interests. The friction was clearest over China, a dominant economic force across the region, and the Trump administration's Shield of the Americas military alliance, according to Politico....

A former White House insider revealed that President Donald Trump ignored a "serious" threat in 2018 to fixate on China.

During an interview on the Court of History podcast, Miles Taylor, the former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, detailed Trump's dismissal of the threat. Taylor said that it happened during a 2018 intelligence briefing on the threat posed by Russia.

"You should have seen our jaws hit the floor in September of 2018, when we had briefed Trump on all the threats to our elections," Taylor said, describing a scene from the first Trump administration. "The only one he seemed to key in on is, 'Wait, the Chinese might not support me. I'm going to go call them out instead of calling out the other threat actors, ' we said, who might meddle."...

Trump's claims about China interfering in U.S. elections were fact-checked by political analysts in real-time using documents he released.

In Trump's Thursday night speech, he announced that his administration would be releasing documents and intelligence findings that support his claim that China meddled in the 2020 U.S. elections. However, the documents didn't show anything of the sort, analysts noted.

During the speech, CNN senior national security reporter Zachary Cohen pointed out in a post on X that CNN had reviewed documents Trump was talking about in his speech....