Tag: China

A Japanese submarine — the Soryu — collided with a Chinese freighter. While the damage wasn’t critical, the temporary loss of a vessel was.

This Week on SOFREP: A military-wide search for extremism, China’s Cold War games, and insights into new findings about COVID-19 testing.

China’s antics in the South China Sea are not new, but a form of Soviet Cold War tactics aimed at misdirection and the spread of propaganda.

“Putin has outplayed us. He has played the great game better than anyone on the world stage,” McRaven said, calling the Russian president “dangerous.”

The PLA activities highlighted here are the latest in a string of aggressive and destabilizing actions,” a US military spokesman said.

This week on SOFREP: Biden’s military agenda, China’s saber rattling, and a first-hand account of the secret CIA mission to find bin Laden.

China is huffing and puffing threats about invading Taiwan. But the very fact that they’re rattling the saber shows how idle the threat is.

As America faces the Great Power Struggle, Secretary of Defense nominee Lloyd Austin will face a struggle to fund it.

The FBI’s investigation found that Chen was working with the Chinese communist government dating back to 2012 “at our country’s expense.”

Veteran diplomat Bill Burns has been tapped for CIA Director. How will his appointment affect the agency — and foreign policy — under Biden?

Foreign Policy spoke to 36 US officials, who said China forcing its firms to process stolen data represents the “commercial wing of the party.”

A year in, and the Space Force is hovering between administrations, working to justify billions in costs, and still trying to define itself.