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Montana Sen. Jon Tester speaks publicly on the threat China poses to the U.S. both militarily and economically.

President Biden's remarks on Thursday were intended to dispel confusion — and to pull the nation out of what had at times seemed like a science fiction movie with an espionage twist.

U.S. officials now suspect that the balloon was sent to spy on bases in Guam and Hawaii and that other downed objects were not surveillance machines. Washington’s evolving view reflects U.S. and Chinese difficulties in discerning each other’s intentions.

The president said there was no indication that three incidents that followed – all detected because of increased radar capabilities – presented a national security threat.

Speech in Tokyo draws parallel with pre-second world war agreement, and claims credit for urging others to stand up to Beijing ‘bullying’
The former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has accused the west of “appeasing” Beijing and has claimed credit for rallying other countries to “call out the bullying of the Chinese ­government”.
In a speech to be delivered at a conference in Tokyo on Friday, Morrison is also expected to urge the Albanese government to consider using Magnitsky-style targeted human rights sanctions laws to hold Chinese government officials accountable.

Advocates of Huang Xueqin accuse authorities of ‘trying to exert mental pressure and physical torture’
Advocates for a Chinese journalist and activist who has been held in detention without trial for almost 18 months have said she needs urgent medical attention.
Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing, a labour rights activist, were and formally arrested a month later. They have been accused of inciting subversion of state power, and held in Guangzhou without access to family or lawyers.

In fourth grade, Catherine Haena Kim could not muster the courage to audition for the female lead of her school's production of William Shakespeare's “The Tempest.” But her teachers saw something in ...

The latest standoff has sparked international hysteria. But the more countries know about friends and enemies, the better
Long ago, in May 1960, an American U-2 spy plane took off from Pakistan to fly at high altitude across the Soviet Union as part of a mission to photograph key facilities and military sites on behalf of the CIA. The Russians saw it and . The pilot, Gary Powers, managed to descend by parachute and was arrested. In Washington, the Eisenhower administration lied about his mission, claiming the U-2 was a “” that had strayed off course after its pilot had “difficulties with his oxygen equipment” (sound familiar?).
The incident caused a temporary poisoning of US-Soviet relations as the Kremlin turned it into political theatre. Moscow subjected Powers to a and gave him a 10-year sentence.
Jonathan Steele is a former Guardian correspondent in Moscow

DC Comics recently announced the release of three upcoming comic book titles aimed at highlighting the talents and stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) creators. Set to debut under ...

A top DOJ official accused the Chinese government of colluding with technology companies to access user data that could harm U.S. national security.

As a UFO investigator, it’s my job to be sceptical and rigorous. Yet an air of mystery remains – and I hope it always will
Sometimes they appear in the form of an orb of light, high in the sky, that seems to pass through solid objects such as trees and buildings. Sometimes it’s a strange mist that descends out of nowhere. In an increasing number of cases, an object that can’t be seen with the naked eye shows up clearly in a photographic image.
These are examples of UFOs – literally, unidentified flying objects – that are spotted in UK skies every day. In the wake of the US shooting down a suspected , plus three other objects it has yet to identify, experts say there are going to be a lot more of . As a UFO researcher, I treat these things with scepticism and scientific rigour, but part of me hopes they will never be fully explained.

Most Americans believe that President Joe Biden made the right decision in shooting down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that passed over U.S. territory. The balloon was shot down off Myrtle ...