by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Military, Trump
In another brazen attack on the U.S., a Russian military intelligence unit has secretly paid bounties to Taliban-linked fighters to kill U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, according to a bombshell New York Times report. The report represents a deadly escalation...
by Jim Heath | Jun 18, 2020 | Book Press, Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to buy agricultural products from the US to help Trump win states with large farming industries in the 2020 election. That’s according to an upcoming book by the former national security adviser John Bolton,...
by Jim Heath | Jun 17, 2020 | 2020, Ads, Battlegrounds, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
A group formed by anti-Trump Republicans is airing a new ad attacking President Trump for getting “rolled” by China and its powerful President Xi Jinping. The spot from the Lincoln Project — which the group says will air in Florida, Pennsylvania,...
by Jim Heath | Jun 16, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines
China is rounding up Beijing residents and forcing them into quarantine as the capital goes back into lockdown amid an ‘extremely severe’ coronavirus outbreak. Footage shows officials in hazmat suits barking orders through a megaphone while people line up...
by Jim Heath | Jun 16, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
North Korea today blew up a liaison office it operated with South Korea and threatened to move troops into the demilitarized zone, dramatically ramping up military tensions on the peninsula as the nuclear-armed regime seeks concessions from Seoul and Washington. The...
by Jim Heath | Jun 1, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Donald Trump has offered to invite Vladimir Putin to an expanded G7 meeting in September, but the invitation has already been adamantly opposed by the UK and Canada. According to a Kremlin account today, Trump initiated the call, in which the two leaders talked about...
