Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon U.S. intelligence agencies recently monitored a Chinese test of a new rail car-based long-range missile capable of hitting targets throughout the United States. The canister ejection test of a DF-41 missile from a rail-mobile launcher was detected on Dec. 5 in western China, said defense officials familiar […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon A Chinese attack submarine conducted a simulated cruise missile attack on the aircraft carrier USS Reagan during a close encounter several weeks ago, according to American defense officials. The targeting incident near the Sea of Japan in October violated China’s 2014 commitment to the multinational Code for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times China has begun patrols with nuclear missile submarines for the first time, giving Beijing a new strategic nuclear strike capability, according to the U.S. Strategic Command and Defense Intelligence Agency. U.S. intelligence and strategic nuclear officials, however, remain uncertain whether China’s four Jin-class missile submarine […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times A senior State Department official said in Beijing this week the United States will oppose a formal treaty banning weapons in space, as both China and Russia recently conducted flight tests of satellite-killing missiles. Frank Rose, assistant secretary for arms control, verification and compliance, called […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Days after President Barack Obama urged China to halt the militarization of newly-created islands in the South China Sea, China continues military deployments, exercises and construction in the disputed waterway. During a summit meeting with Pacific Rim leaders in Manila Nov. 18, Obama called on China to […]
American companies doing business in China will face a continuing threat to their intellectual property under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s security policies, according to a State Department security report. China’s large-scale information hacking is not limited to recent incidents like the theft of Office of Personnel Management records on 2.1 million federal workers, according to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Throughout the last third of George W. Bush’s presidency, opinion leaders were obsessed with the question of mistakes. Among most members of the press and among Democratic officeholders (even, or perhaps especially, those who voted to approve the Iraq War), the appetite was strong to hold President Bush in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Fresh details have emerged of the police operation against the terrorists who stormed the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, with one officer likening the scene on the ground floor to “something from Dante’s hell”. The officer immediately came “nose to nose” with one of the terrorists, Le Monde reported. He shot at […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The Pentagon has not conducted airstrikes against an estimated 60 Islamic State (IS) training camps that are supplying thousands of fighters each month to the terror group, according to defense and intelligence officials. The camps are spread throughout Islamic State-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria and are […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon A Russian document shown on state-run television confirmed that Moscow is developing a high-speed drone submarine capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. The secret weapon was shown on a document during several Tuesday Russian television broadcasts of President Vladimir Putin announcing plans for new strike weapons capable […]