President Trump’s administration unveiled new regulations to limit Huawei’s ability to purchase critical technology from foreign companies.“The Trump Administration sees Huawei for what it is — an arm of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) surveillance state — and we have taken action accordingly,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday. “The United States has provided ample time for affected companies and persons — primarily Huawei customers — to identify and shift to other sources of equipment, software, and technology and wind-down their operations. Now that time is up.”Pompeo...…President Trump’s administration unveiled new regulations to limit Huawei’s ability to purchase critical technology from foreign companies.“The Trump Administration sees Huawei for what it is — an arm of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) surveillance state — and we have taken action accordingly,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday. “The United States has provided ample time for affected companies and persons — primarily Huawei customers — to identify and shift to other sources of equipment, software, and technology and wind-down their operations. Now that time is up.”Pompeo...WW…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi derided President Trump’s administration in an unusually public phone call with his Russian counterpart, a trend of between Washington and Beijing.“The U.S. ... has lost its mind, morals, and credibility,” the Chinese envoy said, according to a of the call released by the Foreign Ministry as reported by the South China Morning Post.China published the barbs just days after the foreign minister called for a dialogue between U.S. and Chinese diplomats. The transcript shows Wang arguing that the U.S.-China competition is a sign of Trump’s hostility to...…Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi derided President Trump’s administration in an unusually public phone call with his Russian counterpart, a trend of between Washington and Beijing.“The U.S. ... has lost its mind, morals, and credibility,” the Chinese envoy said, according to a of the call released by the Foreign Ministry as reported by the South China Morning Post.China published the barbs just days after the foreign minister called for a dialogue between U.S. and Chinese diplomats. The transcript shows Wang arguing that the U.S.-China competition is a sign of Trump’s hostility to...WW…

China has a “neo-imperial” ambition to make the entire world comply with its communist ideas, according to a senior State Department official.“We know that the Chinese Communist Party’s neo-imperial ways aren’t incidental to its character but are an essential feature of a nationalist and Marxist-Leninist mindset,” State Department assistant secretary David Stilwell, who leads the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, said Tuesday. “Beijing wants to dominate its immediate neighborhood — and eventually impose its will and its rules on your neighborhood too, wherever you may be.”Noting...…China has a “neo-imperial” ambition to make the entire world comply with its communist ideas, according to a senior State Department official.“We know that the Chinese Communist Party’s neo-imperial ways aren’t incidental to its character but are an essential feature of a nationalist and Marxist-Leninist mindset,” State Department assistant secretary David Stilwell, who leads the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, said Tuesday. “Beijing wants to dominate its immediate neighborhood — and eventually impose its will and its rules on your neighborhood too, wherever you may be.”Noting...WW…

A violent confrontation between the United States and China could take place within months, according to an American lawmaker wary of Beijing’s expansionist foreign policy.“I would predict there will be a clash within the next three to six months,” Florida Rep. Ted Yoho, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee for Asia, told the Washington Examiner.Yoho’s forecast attests to the suspicion that has come to characterize U.S.-China relations in recent years, as U.S. intelligence officials that the world’s largest communist power is waging against Washington. That...…A violent confrontation between the United States and China could take place within months, according to an American lawmaker wary of Beijing’s expansionist foreign policy.“I would predict there will be a clash within the next three to six months,” Florida Rep. Ted Yoho, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee for Asia, told the Washington Examiner.Yoho’s forecast attests to the suspicion that has come to characterize U.S.-China relations in recent years, as U.S. intelligence officials that the world’s largest communist power is waging against Washington. That...WW…

China’s overseas infrastructure investment program is a form of economic and geopolitical imperialism, according to a senior member of President Trump’s administration.“The Chinese pitch is orientation toward China,” said Adam Boehler, the first CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. “It is about advancing China's control and interest," he said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "I'd liken it more toward colonialism, back in the 1800s, which doesn't work out that well, because sovereign nations like to run themselves.”That observation is a window into the...…China’s overseas infrastructure investment program is a form of economic and geopolitical imperialism, according to a senior member of President Trump’s administration.“The Chinese pitch is orientation toward China,” said Adam Boehler, the first CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. “It is about advancing China's control and interest," he said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "I'd liken it more toward colonialism, back in the 1800s, which doesn't work out that well, because sovereign nations like to run themselves.”That observation is a window into the...WW…

BREAKING: Sen. Lindsay Graham proposes 15-week national abortion banClosePresident Trump has played a “weak” role in the trans-Atlantic response to the , according to the European Union’s top diplomat.“Too weak,” EU High Representative Josep Borrell of the United States during a videoconference with members of the European Parliament. “Maybe because they were not at all prepared to face this problem, and now, they are suffering the consequences as much as some European countries have done.”Borrell, a former Spanish official, offered that blunt criticism despite past warnings that Western...…BREAKING: Sen. Lindsay Graham proposes 15-week national abortion banClosePresident Trump has played a “weak” role in the trans-Atlantic response to the , according to the European Union’s top diplomat.“Too weak,” EU High Representative Josep Borrell of the United States during a videoconference with members of the European Parliament. “Maybe because they were not at all prepared to face this problem, and now, they are suffering the consequences as much as some European countries have done.”Borrell, a former Spanish official, offered that blunt criticism despite past warnings that Western...WW…

China should grant international inspectors access to labs where scientists study viruses similar to the one that caused the coronavirus pandemic, in order to prevent the “accidental release” of such contagions, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.“We have to make sure that the Chinese government is handling those materials in an appropriate way, not only in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but elsewhere,” Pompeo told reporters at the State Department.That call puts pressure on China and the World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency responsible for regulating...…China should grant international inspectors access to labs where scientists study viruses similar to the one that caused the coronavirus pandemic, in order to prevent the “accidental release” of such contagions, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.“We have to make sure that the Chinese government is handling those materials in an appropriate way, not only in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but elsewhere,” Pompeo told reporters at the State Department.That call puts pressure on China and the World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency responsible for regulating...WW…