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Air Force to test hypersonic missile Follow Us Question of the Day By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Wednesday, March 3, 2021 The Air Force is moving ahead with a revolutionary high-speed missile that will be tested in the coming weeks, according to officials. An air-launched test of the booster for the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, is expected in the near future, said Air Force spok...

How China Is Trying to Dominate and Control the South China Sea Why tensions are spiking: China has for many years now been building new island-like structures, adding airstrips, and placing weapons in and around highly disputed areas of the South China Sea.  The Pentagon’s long-standing opposition to Chinese phony island-building, or “land reclamation,” in the South China Sea is based upon the definition of “island” as it is explained in the U.N. Convention Law of the Sea, an inter...

Pentagons China Task Force has 4 Months to Submit Report on "Chinese Provocations" Our Bureau 2452 Marines assigned to a landing ship flotilla with the South China Sea Fleet under the PLA Navy rush to board Z-8s during an exercise held in August 2017. Pentagon has assigned the China Task Force work to compile a report on China-related matters including “provocations.” On Monday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III gave marching orders to the China Task Force led by Ely Ratner. He pro...

The Pentagon’s newly established China Task Force is now formally underway, a move that introduces the prospect of strategic and operational military adjustments in the Pacific intended to ensure stability and counter Chinese provocations. 

Cotton calls for speedy bipartisan changes to counter many threats from China Print this article The Biden administration will have to make fast policy changes if it is to limit China’s growing military power, argues Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, in a pitch that is gaining bipartisan momentum. From Chinese export controls on the rare earth elements used to produce F-35 fighter jets to an outsized U.S. economic dependency that fuels the growth of China’s military, Cotton called for the Bi...

Commentary: The US’ greatest asset in East Asia may be Japan Toggle share menu Advertisement Commentary: The US’ greatest asset in East Asia may be Japan The US and Japan will need to shore up their economic heft and pursue a shared commitment towards setting the rules on trade, says Titli Basu. Composite pictures of Jo Biden and Yoshihide Suga. (Photos: AFP) 20 Feb 2021 06:00AM) Share this content Bookmark NEW DELHI: For US Pr...

The US Navy sent a destroyer to challenge "unlawful" restrictions by China and others in the South China Sea. The destroyer USS Russell sailed through the contested Spratly Islands without asking permission.

Exclusive — Conservative Lawmakers Launch Legislative Blitz Exposing Biden’s Weakness on Communist China 16 Feb 2021Washington, DC Top conservative lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are launching a legislative blitz against Democrat President Joe Biden, exposing his weakness when it comes to the threat of the Chinese Communist Party and Biden’s coziness with the Communists in Beijing. The effort, led by Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), will con...

"Its no secret that over the last four years we had some difficult discussions inside NATO,” Secretary General Stoltenberg said. "But now we look to the future, and the future is that we now have an administration in the United States." By   Paul McLeary on February 15, 2021 at 2:02 PM

MANILA, Philippines — The United States takes its responsibilities to its treaty alliances including that with the Philippines “very seriously,” a Pentagon official said over the weekend. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said the newly established China Task Force of the US Department of Defense will be looking into the current state of its military-to-military contacts in the Indo-Pacific. He said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made it very...