Guy Taylor

A Senate Armed Services hearing turned heated this week when Sen. Angus King, chairman of the Strategic Forces subcommittee, laid into John Hill, deputy assistant defense secretary for space and missile defense, about why the Biden administration’s 2025 missile defense budget request falls far short on funding to maintain readiness against the growing threat of hypersonic missiles from adversaries -- namely Russia.

The Hamas terror group has long operated a secret police force in the Gaza Strip to spy on Palestinian civilians in order to crush any opposition to the group’s hardline rule over the territory.

U.S. officials and private companies have “to do better” at engaging allies across Central and South America to counter aggressive Chinese and Russian moves in the region, such as Moscow’s recent docking of warships in Cuba and Beijing’s establishment of secretive space facilities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela.

Taiwan’s top diplomat in the United States tells The Washington Times in an exclusive interview that China’s communist government is intensifying its campaign to pressure countries not to recognize the legitimacy of the island democracy and to block it from participating in the United Nations and other key international organizations.

China is exploiting U.S. government-funded research and partnerships between American and Chinese universities — including some with explicit links to the Chinese military — to gain “back-door access” to insights on advanced technology breakthroughs, according to a new congressional report reviewed by The Washington Times.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark R. Warner says that if the Nov. 5 vote is as close as anticipated, U.S. adversaries can be expected to ramp up digital disinformation operations with the goal of sowing chaos, discord and confusion among Americans during the days immediately following the election.

President-elect Trump is pushing for the United States to become the world leader in producing advanced microchips, an industry now dominated by Taiwan that analysts say produces an estimated 90% of advanced semiconductors.

A key member of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s political party was in Washington this week calling on President Trump to express support for freedom and democracy in Northeast Asia at a moment when China and North Korea may seek to take advantage of the political crisis gripping Seoul.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The moment is ripe for President Trump to focus on aligning Arab powers with the U.S. and Israel around the common goal of containing Iran, according to former national security officials who attended a major international weapons show here last week.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The moment is ripe for President Trump to focus on aligning Arab powers with the U.S. and Israel around the common goal of containing Iran, according to former national security officials who attended a major international weapons show here last week.