China falls behind in tech battle with the U.S. as sanctions cause collapse of its computer chip industry.
Xi Jinping’s vow to win the global tech battle is sounding increasingly hollow.
Chinese spy convicted of snooping on US defence contractors
FORMER Chicago college student, Ji Chaoqun, has been convicted in Chicago of spying for Chinese intelligence services.
Putin warned his “mediocre” troops aren’t up to fighting in a nuclear battlefield
Vladimir Putin has been warned that his rag tag army of exhausted conscripts and demoralised mercenaries are in no fit state for him to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine. General David H. Petraeus, a former top U.S. commander in Iraq…
Former ambassador on China and Taiwan – steering clear of the red lines
In mid-August, China’s angry response to US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei was to fire live missiles over Taiwan and into its territorial waters and hold military exercises closer than ever before to the island. Tension…
Homeland Security agents charged with accessing passport database to help China target and harass dissidents
A decorated former Homeland Security agent recruited serving colleagues to access secure government databases so he could help China track down and harass US-based dissidents, according to court papers. Derrick Taylor, 60, who is now working as a private investigator,…
Fake Russian heiress and Trump
THE FBI is probing startling claims that an alleged Ukrainian master con-woman posed as a member of a rich European banking dynasty to gain repeated access to the Mar-a-Lago estate of former President Donald Trump. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette…
Did Russian spymasters kill the husband of their superspy to create the perfect widow socialite cover?
OLGA Kolobova will go down as a hero in her native Russia as the superspy who used the cover of a widow socialite to dupe NATO officials in Naples. Using the fictitious name Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera – Maria Adela…
How Chinese propagandists use threats of death, rape and assault to suppress dissent over Xinjiang
Social media trolling, which “frequently evolve (s) into threats of death, rape, or assault”, is being deployed by China to suppress reports of atrocities against Uyghurs and other minorities in the Xinjiang region, according to a newly released US Department…
Biden’s ‘just enough’ strategy is subverting Zelensky’s capacity to close out Russia in Ukraine
by Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth, Guest Authors General George Patton once famously stated that, “Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his military leadership, valiantly, are…
First it was fuel prices now it’s electronic chips in your phones and cars which are set to soar in price – bleak economic news looms over the “new Ukraine.”
Economists are warning of a global hi-tech doomsday scenario in which Chinese moves to annex or erect a trade blockade around Taiwan spark inflation-busting price rises for mobile phones and other hi-tech “must haves.” Their concern stems from parallels between…
