The Chinese Communist Party is persecuting Christians — in Texas. Zhang Mei spent more than three decades as a lay leader in house church networks in Henan province, China. With pressure against independent...
Tools to Counter the CCP's Industrial Policy and Supply Chain Threats
More money necessary but not sufficient
It’s like a fistfight between conjoined twins: The United States and Canada are throwing tariffs and insults at each other tit-for-tat in one of the most unnecessary trade wars in recent memory. “I...
hina’s Communist Party is playing a long game against Christianity, using the young to target the old; both separating children from faith and telling them to turn against their parents for a few dollars...
President Donald Trump emerged from his May 2026 summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping embracing a new framework for U.S.-China relations. The White House said the two leaders agreed to build a “constructive...
While Americans were paying more than $6 for a dozen eggs, the CEOs of America’s largest egg companies conspired to jack up prices even higher. Unfortunately, this kind of behavior...
Long after COVID-19 ended, China is still trying to shape the world’s perception of the pandemic. On August 6, FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) identified at least 50 coordinated...
“Gradually, then suddenly” could work
Xi Jinping has stated, “The crumbling of a regime always starts in the realm of ideas. Changing the way people think is a long-term process. Once the front lines of human thought have been broken through, other defensive lines also become harder to defend.”
In the early hours of July 3, 2026, Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri was pulled from his jail cell in southern China. He assumed he was being transferred to another prison. Only when he arrived at the...
After spending 266 days in a Chinese prison for practicing his faith, Pastor Ezra Jin is now free. The July 3 release comes weeks after President Donald Trump raised Jin’s case with Chinese paramount...
As NATO leaders gather in Ankara next week, there is much to celebrate. Ukraine is gaining the upper hand on the battlefield against Russia. European defense spending is way up. Many European...
The 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) made an admission that its predecessors only implied: the United States cannot realistically plan to fight two major wars simultaneously and should instead focus...
In April 1950 President Harry Truman produced his seminal national security document, and one of the most consequential strategic documents in American history—NSC-68. This National Security Council...
The United Nations is hurtling toward self-inflicted insolvency, and it has itself to blame. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres needs to secure $8.68 billion to keep the lights on for regular operations...
Excerpt The National Defense Authorization Act has become one of Congress’s main vehicles for countering China’s military and technological ambitions. This year’s annual defense bill should also...
The stronger and more united NATO remains, the less incentive Beijing will have to test American resolve elsewhere.