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President of Argentina Javier Milei arrived in New York in the late evening hours of Saturday for a brief visit to the United States in anticipation of addressing the United Nations General Assembly, reportedly on Tuesday.

The explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies that Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorists obtained from foreign suppliers prompt worldwide anxiety.

President of Panama José Raúl Mulino said local authorities have detected an increase in U.S.-bound Chinese migrants crossing the Darién Gap.

Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced a bill on Thursday that would require the Department of the Treasury to use America’s representatives at international institutions to pressure those entities not to fund slavery around the world, especially Chinese government’s genocidal Uyghur slavery practices.

John Dwyer, research director for cybersecurity firm Binary Defense, said in an interview on Wednesday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to infiltrate the network of a U.S.-based global engineering firm and linger for months before they were discovered.

A ten-year-old Japanese boy died from his wounds on Thursday morning after he was stabbed by a 44-year-old Chinese man near a school in Shenzhen, China.

Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi announced that his terrorist organization is running 39 Afghanistan diplomatic missions.

United States senators from both sides of the aisle are warning that China may use Mexico to bypass tariffs through an international trade agreement and are asking the government to impose tariffs on those imports to protect local industries.

Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, and the Democrats in D.C. have done nothing to slow China’s power, and they haven’t missed an opportunity to enable China’s rise.

A group of influential artificial intelligence scientists from around the world are calling for the establishment of an international authority to oversee AI development and prevent potential “catastrophic outcomes” as technology advances at a rapid pace.

Chinese electric vehicles threaten to undercut UK domestic manufacturing and pose national security risks, a think tank warned.

A Chinese national named Song Wu, employed by a gigantic Chinese state-owned defense conglomerate, was indicted in the Northern District of Georgia on Monday for a scheme to hack U.S. government agencies including NASA, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General (DoD OIG) revealed that the Pentagon sent American allies in Taiwan a shipment of “moldy” tactical vests and expired ammunition, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday, among other “unserviceable” items.

Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder of Oracle, believes that artificial intelligence will enable a vast surveillance system capable of monitoring citizens and ensuring they remain on their “best behavior.”

Police in Chennai, India, detained 104 striking employees of the local Samsung Electronics plant because they were allegedly planning to hold a protest march without obtaining proper permission.

A 27-year-old man named Chu Kai-pong pled guilty to “sedition” in a Hong Kong court Monday because he wore a t-shirt with a protest slogan.

A former aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) who is allegedly a Chinese spy reportedly toured the White House in May.

South Korea has removed over 1,300 Chinese-made security cameras from miltiary bases after they were found to pose a security risk.

President Joe Biden’s United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai announced increased U.S. tariffs on China, initially imposed by former President Donald Trump. The tariff increases come even as Vice President Kamala Harris attacks the use of tariffs on the presidential campaign trail.

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed between Nicaragua’s communist regime and China has had little to no effect on improving the Nicaraguan economy, the local newspaper La Prensa reported on Friday.

The Biden White House responded on Friday to a plea from House Democrats by proposing new rules for foreign shipping to close the notorious “de minimis” loophole, but took no immediate action.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry bristled on Wednesday at being asked about the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, which took place Tuesday, insisting it does not want China to be “an issue” in the election. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that his government’s support for Ukraine’s “territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence” is “unwavering.”

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Wednesday urged China to take a leading role in mediation on the Ukraine war.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) reports that China has become the world leader in roughly 90% of critical technologies.

Ali Akbar Ahmadian, secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) of Iran, on Wednesday called for the China-dominated BRICS economic group to create “a new security structure in the international arena to help the order and security of the future world.”

ABC News’ moderators for Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, failed to ask a single question about China, one of the most important challenges facing the United States, both economically and militarily.

CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris accused former President Donald Trump of having “sold us out” to the Chinese government with policies that “ended up selling American chips to China.”

Tesla’s car sales in China reached their highest point for 2024 in August, but the company is still losing market share to domestic rivals like BYD, according to a recent report.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that military units had arrived in Vladivostok, Russia, to participate in joint military exercises with Moscow, part of a greater plan to for China to also host the Russian military in exercises in the Sea of Japan.

Former Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who disappeared in June 2023 with no clear explanation and has not been seen in public since, is reportedly working a “low-level job” in Beijing and has no future career prospects, the Washington Post reported this week.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping sent a message to North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un on Monday congratulating his country on its anniversary, a note international observers described as relatively cold and a potential sign of discord between the two countries.

Beijing’s three-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) concluded on Friday with more pledges of funding for Africa, even though China’s sputtering economy may be hard-pressed to meet those commitments.

The Chinese government newspaper Global Times highlighted a growing trend in the country on Sunday of refurbishing kindergarten facilities into nursing homes, or adding amenities for seniors to children’s play and education sectors, as a way to participate in the “flourishing silver economy.”

The international world order is “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War”, the U.K. and U.S. spy chiefs warned Saturday.

The Chinese government on Friday announced that it will no longer allow foreign families to adopt Chinese children, ending a program that has found homes overseas for over 160,000 children since 1992. While Beijing refused to clearly explain its decision, most observers suspected it was a response to declining birth rates in China.