China dominates in critical minerals, and President Trump has turned to high-pressure tactics to acquire them.

Given this backdrop, the U.S. needs to return to its old grand strategy, which helped the West win the Cold War by driving a wedge between Moscow and Beijing. Ending the Ukraine war would also enable the U.S. to reallocate military resources from Europe to the Indo-Pacific, where its global primacy is truly at stake.

President Donald Trump addressed the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference on Saturday. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We've been treated very unfairly by China and many other countries,

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) says former President Joe Biden canceling the China Initiative as one of his first acts in office was an admission of guilt. “After our investigation, after he pardoned his entire family,

China has cowed many of America’s elites, celebrities, athletes and politicians into silence. They fear losing jobs, contracts, investors, status and worse. Better to stay silent.

The problem has become so pervasive that the FBI now opens a Chinese counterintelligence operations roughly every 12 hours, House panel says.

Microsoft is pushing the Trump administration to change last-minute export controls implemented by Joe Biden on his way out of office that were largely designed to limit access to advanced AI chips so that less surplus could find its way into the hands of China or other foreign adversaries.

Trump’s long and growing list of shortsighted actions in Latin America has created an opening there for America’s adversaries, most notably China.

Trump officials recently met with their Japanese and Dutch counterparts about restricting Tokyo Electron Ltd. and ASML Holding NV engineers from maintaining semiconductor gear in China, according to people familiar with the matter.

China “would start replacing the U.S. in the role of keeping Russia out of the Eastern Flank,” Gabrielius Landsbergis, the former Lithuanian foreign minister, recently posted on X. European Union members “in the East would be dependent on China’s protection and the racketeering would spread West.”