Defense cut proposal loses big in Congress
Seeking to justify draconian cuts, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., declared that “the Republican Senate has decided to provide more funding for the Pentagon than the next 11 nations’ military budgets combined.”
Chinese propaganda outlet has paid US newspapers $19 million for advertising, printing
China Daily, an English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has paid more than $4.6 million to The Washington Post and nearly $6 million to The Wall Street Journal since November 2016, the records show.
Big Tech, elected officials mimicking China’s surveillance methods to police U.S. citizens amid pandemic
U.S. officials are mimicking China’s efforts at tracking and attempting to destroy coronavirus while civil rights activists warn the plans could wreak havoc in a post-virus world.
Trump pulls WHO funding, says organization ‘must be held accountable’
President Donald Trump made it official Tuesday that the administration was halting money to the World Health Organization, the international body that said in January that COVID-19 could not be spread by human-to-human contact, and praised China’s response to the virus.
Report: Intelligence officials are taking a serious look at the possibility coronavirus leaked from Wuhan lab
Yahoo News reported that the U.S. intelligence community is exploring all possible avenues the virus could have been unintentionally released from research facilities that were known to be studying bat-based coronaviruses in Wuhan.
Here’s how pro-Beijing news outlet Phoenix TV got in to White House coronavirus press briefing
A reporter from a Hong Kong outlet aligned with the Communist Party of China is a member of the White House Foreign Press Group and has rotating access to White House press briefings.
After COVID-19, 4 ways the US can put pressure on China
Even before COVID-19 cases spiked in the U.S., members of Congress were drafting legislation to punish China. Odds are the pandemic won’t be the great turning point in Sino-American relations that some anticipate.
Coronavirus expert: Virus could have leaked from Wuhan lab
A molecular biologist who has been quoted as a coronavirus expert by The Washington Post and MSNBC said Thursday in no uncertain terms that the novel coronavirus could have been unleashed due to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
‘A Force for Good’: Pompeo explains the Trump administration’s vision for America’s role in the world
This new era requires a top-to-bottom rethinking of how America should exercise its role as the world’s top power. To that end, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says, the Trump administration has given American foreign policy a much-needed course correction after the Obama era.
Pro-life nations reject UN’s cultural colonialism on abortion, population control
Another member of Kenya’s Parliament, Jennifer Shamalla, said that she and her colleagues were “deeply concerned” about the U.N.’s promotion of abortion under the banner of population and development policy.
Deb Billado: All believe the USMCA trade deal is great, so what’s the holdup?
An independent panel found the agreement would add $68.2 billion to the U.S. economy, create 176,000 jobs and boost dairy exports to Canada by $227 million. However, Congress has yet to vote on this truly important bill.