Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times The Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE and three related firms were slapped with Commerce Department economic sanctions March 8 for illicit transfers of goods containing U.S.-made products to Iran. But under pressure from China, the department suspended the sanctions on ZTE, a major producer of smartphones […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Competition between the United States and China over control of the South China Sea took center stage this week as President Obama opened up Vietnam to greater U.S. arms sales while China’s military intelligence chief met with a senior Russian general. Obama announced that the United States […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The National Security Agency carried out electronic espionage against a senior Russian crime boss in a search for ties between organized crime groups and Russian President Vladimir Putin. A classified NSA newsletter from May 2003 made public this week stated that an electronic spying request was made […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times Countering foreign strategic deception operations has been one of the official missions of all U.S. intelligence agencies since the Reagan administration. But now one of the last units devoted to counteracting foreign lies, deception and denial of information by states like China, Russia and Iran […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Congress is pressing the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency to counter the growing threat of high-speed, maneuvering missiles. An amendment to the current defense authorization bill passed by the House Armed Services Committee last week would require the agency to develop and fund a program to defeat hypersonic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China’s plans to build up a disputed island near the Philippines could lead to a regional conflict, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress on Thursday. Carter was asked about the strategic significance of China’s plan to add military facilities to a disputed island known as Scarborough Shoal […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China successfully flight tested its new high-speed maneuvering warhead last week, days after Russia carried out its own hypersonic glider test, according to Pentagon officials. The test of the developmental DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle was monitored after launch Friday atop a ballistic missile fired from the Wuzhai […]
Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile off its east coast on Saturday, South Korea said, amid concerns that the isolated state might conduct a nuclear test or a missile launch ahead of a ruling party meeting in May. [The missile was fired at 6:30 p.m. Saturday (5:30 a.m. ET), South Korean […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Iran this week conducted the first launch of a new rocket that the Pentagon views as a key element of Tehran’s effort to build long-range missiles. The launch of the Simorgh space launch vehicle on Tuesday was judged by U.S. intelligence agencies to be partly successful but […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon A Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft on Thursday in the latest military provocation by Moscow over the Baltic Sea, the U.S. European Command said Saturday. “On April 14, a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft flying a routine route in international […]