Taiwan opposition leader pushes U.S. to aid Beijing over island’s future intensifies
Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun used a visit to Washington to argue that direct talks with Beijing are necessary to preserve peace across the Taiwan Strait, drawing renewed scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and Taiwan’s ruling party as tensions with China continue to rise. Cheng, chair of the Kuomintang, said her party remains committed to Taiwan’s…
Watchdog finds America’s air refueling fleet unfit for a war with China
The United States can put a stealth bomber through a window over Beijing. It can sink a Chinese carrier group from 3,000 miles away. It has spent more than a trillion dollars preparing for the next great power conflict. But a new government report this month asks a simpler question. One the generals do not…
The SAVE Act: Didn’t Republicans once oppose federal overreach?
By Leon Reed Along with the long-since abandoned beliefs in “judicial restraint” (Republicans now applaud the most radically activist Supreme Court in the nation’s history) and “fiscal restraint” (Eisenhower was the last Republican president who EVER experienced an annual deficit smaller than the one he inherited), let’s add “federal overreach” to the discarded set of…
US military building new base near Gaza border to support post-war plan
The bulldozers are moving dirt. The tenders are issued for mobile structures and a control tower. The Pentagon is building a large military base on the Gaza border, and nobody in Washington can say, with any certainty, what it is for. The facility is going up near the Israeli community of Re’im, just outside the…
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