by Matthew Shea | Apr 14, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The House Foreign Affairs committee last Wednesday passed the “No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act” (H.R. 260), teeing it up for a vote on the House floor. The bill, which was co-sponsored by 23 House Republicans, would aim to stop foreign countries and...
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by Amalia Huot-Marchand | Apr 10, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would impose additional sanctions on any individuals or companies participating in the illegal sale of Iranian oil. Revenue from these sales fuel Tehran’s nuclear program...
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by Karishma Bhuiyan and Andrew Fang | Apr 26, 2024 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON — As Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his trip to China, a human rights group released a report calculating that China currently imprisons more than 449,000 Uyghurs in Xinjiang, about one in 17. According to the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a...
by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Taiwan’s choice of president in the January elections sent a strong message that the island nation wants to maintain its autonomy from China, but voters also sent an appeasing signal to China by denying the president-elect’s party a...
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by Phillip Powell | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Progressive Democrats are pushing President Joe Biden to break with decades of US military aid policy toward Israel as the war in Gaza continues and Congress is poised to vote on additional military aid to Israel. On Sunday, the United States Senate...
by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — After recently leaving her post as envoy to the United States, Bi-khim Hsiao appears headed to become Taiwan’s next vice president, according to public opinion polls. Over the last three years, the female diplomat with an American mother...
