The Commerce Department this week sanctioned 23 Chinese companies, including five linked to arms sales to Russia since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February. Published June 30, 2022

Adm. John Aquilino, commander of the Hawaii-based Indo-Pacific Command, said recently that all U.S. services are strengthening command and control systems to prepare for a future conflict with China. Published June 29, 2022

China conducted a sophisticated disinformation campaign against a company building a rare earth minerals facility in Texas for the Pentagon, according to the Pentagon and a cybersecurity firm. Published June 29, 2022

Biden administration anti-nuclear policymakers suffered a bipartisan rebuke as Congress voted to reverse Pentagon plans to eliminate a nuclear-tipped, sea-launched cruise missile. Published June 22, 2022

American universities closed down most of the more than 100 Beijing-linked Confucius Institutes around the country yet many continue operating under new names and programs that promote Chinese propaganda and soft power, according to an academic research report. Published June 21, 2022

China's military conducted a space-based missile defense interceptor test, claiming to have successfully targeted a ballistic missile in space, the Chinese Defense Ministry said Sunday. Published June 20, 2022

A senior Chinese Communist Party official this week repeated Beijing's demand that the United States not seek to overthrow the communist system. Published June 15, 2022

The group leading the resistance to the lithium Nevada mine proposal is openly, defiantly outside the American mainstream -- against capitalism, against industrialization and electrification, and "proudly Luddite in character." Published June 14, 2022

China's defense minister this week confirmed that the People's Liberation Army is expanding its nuclear arsenal, but played down the development that a U.S. nuclear commander called a "strategic breakout" comparable to the Soviet Union of the 1960s. Published June 14, 2022

A northern Nevada mine that is the largest-known source of lithium in the United States for electric car batteries is facing resistance from a radical environmental group and some of its Native American supporters. Published June 13, 2022