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Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation China's Xi Lauds 'New Positioning' in Ties With US  China's President Xi Jinping hailed on Thursday a "new positioning" of ties with the United States that envisages cooperation with measured competition, following his summit with President Donald Trump. Xi said both leaders agreed that building a constructive, strategically stable relationship would guide ties in the next three years and beyond, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement. Xi described such ties as based primarily on cooperation but with measured competition for "a normal stability in which differences are controllable, and a lasting stability in which peace can be expected," the ministry added.
China’s Xi warns Trump over potential Taiwan conflict  Chinese President Xi Jinping warned President Trump Thursday that “clashes and even conflicts” over Taiwan could imperil economic ties between the world’s two largest economies. Mr. Xi issued the stark warning as the two men met for high-stakes talks in Beijing to start their two-day summit. It also contrasted the public praise the leaders offered each other during the welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Chinese president emphasized that Taiwan is the most important issue in China-U.S. relations and, if handled well, could improve overall stability between the two nations, according to a readout of the meeting provided by the Chinese government. Mr. Xi said, however, that if handled poorly, the two countries will have “clashes and even conflicts putting the entire relationship in jeopardy.”
What Xi wants from Trump as Beijing seeks leverage in high-stakes summit  President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a moment when both Washington and Beijing are trying to stabilize one of the world’s most consequential rivalries without giving ground on deeper strategic disputes. The two-day visit marks Trump’s first trip to China since 2017 and comes amid mounting tensions over trade, artificial intelligence, Taiwan and the fallout from the war with Iran. While the White House is framing the summit as an opportunity for new economic agreements and "rebalancing" the U.S.–China relationship, analysts say Beijing’s priorities are far broader and more long-term." Trump arrives seeking headline deals and visible momentum ahead of the midterms," wrote Zongyuan Zoe Liu, senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Xi is playing a longer game, focused on strategic patience rather than substantive compromise." Top 4 explosive moments from CIA whistleblower's testimony on alleged COVID-19 lab leak cover-up Democrats on the influential panel skipped the hearing, drawing sharp criticism from GOP colleagues  CIA whistleblower James Erdman III testified that the Biden administration buried analysis concluding a lab leak was the most likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic in an explosive hearing on Wednesday. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Erdman, a two-decade CIA veteran, chose to testify on the alleged cover-up at "great personal risk" because "government secrecy cannot become government impunity." Paul’s oversight panel had subpoenaed Erdman’s testimony and previously interviewed him in a classified setting. Erdman worked in a joint role with the Director of National Intelligence’s Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) to investigate COVID origins over the past year. Tehran calls for release of Iranians after Kuwait says it captured IRGC 'infiltrators'  Kuwait's government said on Tuesday that the individuals were attempting to enter Bubiyan Island by sea to carry out "hostile acts." Kuwait's ministries of defense and foreign affairs said the group clashed with Kuwaiti Armed Forces on May 1, wounding two of the "infiltrators" and one Kuwaiti service member. During an interrogation, the group allegedly confessed to belonging to the IRGC and "confessed to being tasked with infiltrating Bubiyan Island aboard a fishing boat that had been specially chartered to carry out hostile acts against Kuwait," the defense ministry said, according to a translation. Bessent: China Will Do What It Can to Reopen Strait of Hormuz  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is in China's best interests and he believes Beijing will do what it can to reopen the waterway. "I think they're going to do what they can," Bessent said in an interview with CNBC. "China, it's very much in their interest to get the Strait reopened, and I think they will be working with behind the scenes to the extent anyone has any say over the Iranian leadership." Bessent spoke from Beijing, where he is accompanying President Donald Trump on a visit to China.
Ukraine’s drone war gives Kyiv new hope as Russian assaults bog down  Shortages are a daily reality for Ukrainian forces along the nearly 800-mile front line: Ammunition runs low, there is little time for sleep, and the next meal may depend on whether an aerial drone can run the gauntlet of incoming Russian fire to deliver supplies. Yet one critical wartime resource — optimism — has been dramatically replenished in recent weeks as the outmanned Ukrainians, armed with stunning new weapons and using inventive battlefield strategies, have brought Russia’s spring offensive to a standstill. “The situation has gotten a bit better,” says Ihor, a drone pilot in Ukraine’s 423rd Separate UAV Battalion, describing a front that, although under pressure, no longer feels as one-sided as it did during the darkest months of Russia’s grinding winter campaign. China Tweaks Rubio's Name Allowing Him Beijing Access  Secretary of State Marco Rubio, once barred from entering China under sanctions imposed by Beijing, joined President Donald Trump in the capital city this week after Chinese officials quietly changed the spelling of his name in official records. The adjustment was subtle but significant, involving just a few characters, reports The Washington Post on Thursday. Analysts said Beijing began using the revised spelling of Rubio's name shortly after Trump appointed him as secretary of state in 2025.
Mississippi's GOP governor drops election pledge in huge setback for Trump’s midterm plan The move dashes GOP hopes of flipping Mississippi's congressional delegation from 3-1 to 4-0 before the 2026 midterms  Republicans hoping to hold the U.S. House hit a setback Wednesday when Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves indicated he will not immediately pursue redistricting following a critical Supreme Court ruling, as officials seek to oust the leader of Democrats' January 6 probe. Following the Supreme Court’s "Callais" ruling on how race can or cannot factor into redistricting, several Republican-led states have moved to redraw congressional maps, arguing for race-neutral approaches — and officials in Jackson quickly took note. Mississippi lawmakers were primed to convene a special session next week to redraw state Supreme Court and potentially congressional districts, but Reeves canceled the session Wednesday after the judge who ruled the court district maps inhibited Black candidates was overruled — sparking a now-in-limbo effort to oust entrenched former January 6 Committee chairman Bennie Thompson. Democrats love whistleblowers, unless they attack Saint Fauci Not a single chair on the left side of the dais was occupied during the explosive Senate hearing on Wednesday By David Marcus
It was an amazing sight in the Senate on Wednesday, as the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, led by its chairman, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held an explosive hearing featuring a CIA whistleblower testifying on COVID origins, and not a single Democrat bothered to even show up. Every chair on the left of the dais sat empty as high-ranking CIA official James Erdman outlined the duplicity and lies, not just of the government during COVID, but especially of disgraced former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, which is precisely why the cowardly Democrats took the morning off. According to Erdman, suppression of the lab leak theory, now widely accepted as how the COVID pandemic began, "was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci, injecting himself into the IC [intelligence community]." What followed was a detailed description of how, at every turn, Fauci put scientists in oversight positions in place who not only backed up his wet-market theory, but in some cases were arguably complicit in the creation of COVID and the subsequent coverup. What the Founding Fathers would tell AOC about the American Revolution Is Rep. Ocasio-Cortez really ignorant of our American History or cleverly and incessantly trying to rewrite it? By Douglas MacKinnon
AOC says American Revolution was against 'billionaires' of the time. To be sure, hubris, ignorance, and intolerance are often the coins of the realm of the far left. A chilling example of that reality was recently on display at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics where former Obama advisor David Axelrod was interviewing potential Democratic presidential candidate Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It was there that AOC proved her massive ignorance and building bias by laughable claiming: "The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time, and we are declaring independence from such an extreme marriage of wealth and the state…" If possible, our Founding Fathers would have told AOC many things. The first two being to "crack a history book" and "try to claw back your tuition money from Boston University." Make no mistake. There is a very real chance that Rep Ocasio-Cortez could be the Democratic nominee for President come 2028. To that point, a recent headline in The Hill stated: "Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t deny 2028 speculation: ‘My ambition is to change this country.’" |
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