China rolls out new J-15 carrier jet for Hagel visit

China rolls out new J-15 carrier jet for Hagel visit

Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China’s military has allowed the public release of the first photographs of a warplane variant deployed on the Liaoning — the aircraft carrier that saw its first visit by U.S. officials this week. The new Shenyang J-15, also known as the Flying Shark, is based on the Russian SU-33 design […]

China ramping up Latin American initiatives

China ramping up Latin American initiatives

Miles Yu, Washington Times On April 1, Chinese defense officials converged at La Paz, Bolivia, for a grand ceremony to deliver the ground station for a Chinese-launched communications satellite. … China is marching on in Latin America, accompanied by a few ideological fellow travelers, such as Venezuela and Cuba. In the past decade, China has […]

U.S. officials outline massive scale of Putin’s corruption

U.S. officials outline massive scale of Putin’s corruption

Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Corruption by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his administration in Moscow has produced tens of billions of dollars worth of illicit funds for the Russian leader and his top aides, according to U.S. officials. Putin is estimated to have amassed a fortune worth at least an estimated $28 billion through […]

White House cancels D.C. counterterror exercise after Al Qaida threatened Washington car bomb attacks

White House cancels D.C. counterterror exercise after Al Qaida threatened Washington car bomb attacks

Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The White House sharply curbed a major counterterrorism drill scheduled for Tuesday in Washington that was designed to test the federal government response to threats of car bombs attacks and a chemical weapons strike on the Metro subway system. The exercise, code named Eagle Horizon 2014, was cut back instead […]

Leaked document points to Moscow’s intent for Crimea, Ukraine

Leaked document points to Moscow’s intent for Crimea, Ukraine

Bill Gertz, The Ring, The Washington Times U.S. intelligence officials say Russia plans to force Ukraine to adopt a scheme to federalize and turn its southern neighbor into a quasi-province of the Russian Federation. Additionally, recent assessments of Moscow’s motives indicate that a large-scale military intervention to take over Ukraine is a possible plan of […]

Pentagon report: China’s ‘asymmetric military technology’ targets U.S. using media, law and psychology

Pentagon report: China’s ‘asymmetric military technology’ targets U.S. using media, law and psychology

Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China is waging political warfare against the United States as part of a strategy to drive the U.S. military out of Asia and control seas near its coasts, according to a Pentagon-sponsored study. A defense contractor report produced for the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon’s think tank on future […]

Chinese hackers ed offered at regime’s police university

Chinese hackers ed offered at regime’s police university

Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China’s main internal security and police university is training hackers for cyber attacks, according to new information obtained by the U.S. government. The People’s Public Security University in Beijing, a part of the Ministry of Public Security that trains all of China’s police and internal security troops, has several units […]

Ukraine: Russian GRU saboteurs seeking to destabilize southern and eastern areas

Ukraine: Russian GRU saboteurs seeking to destabilize southern and eastern areas

Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times Russia’s military forces are not the only problem for Ukraine: Reports from the region indicate that Russian saboteurs are working to foment instability and increase pro-Russian sentiment, especially in the eastern part of the former Soviet republic. Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko told reporters Monday in Kiev that […]