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Spy chief's assessment comes as Pentagon warns against Nancy Pelosi's reported trip to Taiwan in August

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"We’re going to step up. We’re stepping up,” US President Joe Biden said. “We’re proving that NATO is more needed now than it ever has been and it’s as important as it has ever been.”

The establishment of a Chinese naval base in Cambodia is part of Beijing’s strategy to build a network of military facilities around the world in support of its aspirations to become a true global power, the officials said.

The military presence will be on the northern portion of Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base on the Gulf of Thailand, which is slated to be the site of a groundbreaking ceremony this week, according to the officials.

The conservative think tank has shifted on foreign policy along with the Republican grass-roots, and it is taking a more skeptical view of U.S. involvement in the world.

The US aims to turn Taiwan into a ‘porcupine’, a territory bristling with armaments and other forms of US-led support that appears too painful to attack.

Encirclement is a tactic used by both sides in the war between Russia and Ukraine, but it can carry big risks.

The Biden administration has accelerated its efforts to reshape Taiwan’s defense systems as it projects a more robust US military presence in the region to try to deter a potential attack by the Chinese military, current and former US officials say. Russia’s war in Ukraine has made US and Taiwanese officials acutely aware that an autocrat can order an invasion of a neighboring

Encirclement is a tactic used by both sides in the war between Russia and Ukraine, but it can carry big risks.