by Jim Heath | Oct 17, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
China secretly tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile which orbited the globe before returning to Earth to strike its target in a technological development that would overcome US anti-ballistic missile systems. A report from the Financial Times, which cited five...
by Jim Heath | Sep 17, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Biden this week unveiled a new effort to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines, a major step toward countering China as he works to build international backing for his approach to Beijing. The announcement came as part of a new trilateral...
by Jim Heath | May 7, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
China released a greater volume of greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere in 2019 than all of the world’s developed nations put together, a study has found. The eastern superpower has tripled its emission levels since the 1990s, crossing the 14 gigatons...
by Jim Heath | Oct 29, 2020 | 2020, Headlines
One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden’s laptop, a fake “intelligence” document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and...
by Jim Heath | Oct 24, 2020 | 2020, Headlines
President Trump, who declared “I don’t make money from China” in Thursday night’s presidential debate, has in fact collected millions of dollars from government-owned entities in China since he took office. Forbes: At least $5.4 million has flowed into the...