Intel

The second race to the Moon, this time between the United States and China, saw another step in China’s favor on Aug. 6, 2025, when a full-scale powered version of China’s manned Moon lander called Lanyue (for Embracing The Moon) reportedly achieved its first powered test. Read More.

Why does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regard the conquest of Taiwan as essential to its quest for global dominance? Read More.

Two death warrants against President Donald Trump issued within Iran, and broadcast on state media have morphed into a “Blood Covenant” in which more than $40 million has reportedly been raised as a bounty on the U.S. president. Read More.

The FBI interfered with an investigation into Chinese meddling in the 2020 election by suppressing evidence in an effort to cover for then-Director Christopher Wray, according to new documents released by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Read More.

China needs a stable Iranian regime as other states in the region are not looking to the communists for assistance. Read More.

As the colorful political alliance of President Donald Trump and the world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk was historic in its scope and had a clear impact on the early space policy of Trump’s second term, their first week of June 2025 titanic political bust-up must not be allowed to divert one of the major strengths of the United States space program — Musk’s SpaceX company. Read More.

People’s Liberation Army (PLA) researchers' approach to cognitive warfare is in tune with ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu’s belief that subduing the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Read More.

Eighteen months in the making, Ukraine’s operation “Spider’s Web” was a bold non-nuclear strike against Russia’s strategic nuclear forces that has not only re-written the rules of warfare but has opened an era of global-strike drone warfare. Read More.

President Donald Trump is determined to upend the existing strategic nuclear balance by decreasing the utility of China’s and Russia’s investment in nuclear superiority over the United States, by building a National Missile Defense for Americans that will press China and Russia also to build missile defenses, which over time could neutralize nuclear weapons competition. Read More.

Charles Lieber, a former Harvard chemist and nanoscientist who was convicted of lying to investigators about secret work he did for communist China, has been hired by Tsinghua University as a professor. Read More.

The U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy have funded laboratories at American universities which in their research used Chinese supercomputers that have contributed to the communist nation's military buildup. Read More.

Without having to respond to a free press or an inquisitive legislature, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is free to define government transparency as it pleases, usually minimally in order to deny critical insights to adversaries looking to defend themselves from CCP aggression. Read More.

The new chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has warned that America’s military in its current state is not able to deter China and other adversarial states. Read More.

China’s growing naval power is regularly and systematically harassing the waters around Taiwan in what appears to be rehearsal exercises for a future invasion of the self-ruled democratic island. Read More.

U.S. intelligence agencies believe Gen. He Weidong, one of two vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission (CMC), is the latest victim of a political purge in the upper ranks of China’s People’s Liberation Army. Read More.