Bill Gertz

The State Department ratcheted up criticism of China on Thursday for failing to provide sufficient advance notification of a nuclear-capable missile test in the South Pacific on Monday.

Ten years after an international tribunal ruled against China’s expansive claims to control most of the South China Sea, Beijing remains in violation of international law, according to the U.S. Pacific Command’s legal office.

China’s recent test of a long-range ballistic missile did not launch from a submerged submarine but was fired from the ocean’s surface near the coast, according to a senior Taiwanese defense intelligence official.

Chinese and Russian officials held secret meetings in China on military cooperation that included plans to shoot down Starlink satellites now providing key communications for Ukraine’s army, according to documents obtained by investigators at three news outlets.

A section of the House version of the fiscal 2027 defense policy bill would create a closer defense relationship between the U.S. and Israel.

China’s all-powerful civilian and military leader, Xi Jinping, has purged more than 100 senior military leaders in the past four years — far more than the People’s Liberation Army officially acknowledged, according to an Air Force think tank report.

A State Department report said Cuba’s intelligence service continues to have “scores of still-unidentified agents” inside the U.S. government.

The Chinese Communist Party operates a web of organizations engaged in irregular warfare — conflict below the level of kinetic warfare — targeting the United States, which is not ready to counter the activities, an expert on the topic told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The Army’s newest ultra-high-speed missile known as Dark Eagle was deployed to the U.S. island of Guam last month during a military exercise, according to Pacific Command.

The House version of the fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill calls on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to report on the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in South Korea.