Inside The Ring
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
A new showdown is looming between China and the United States over arms sales to Taiwan. The Obama administration privately has decided to sell a new arms package to the island but is keeping details secret until after next week's visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao. Published 8:27 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
The Pentagon is scrambling to explain what appears to be an intelligence failure after Internet photos made public recently showed a faster-than-estimated advance of China's new fifth-generation warplane. Published 7:43 p.m. January 5, 2011 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
A newly released State Department cable from November 2009 reveals the Israeli military's growing worries about Iran's nuclear weapons program and Tehran's support for regional terrorists in seeking "Hamastan" and "Hezbollahstan" enclaves. Published 4:09 p.m. December 22, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Wallace "Chip" Gregson, assistant defense secretary for Asian and Pacific security affairs, disclosed this week that the Pentagon has coined a new acronym for the threat posed by China's special missiles and other advanced weapons. Published 7:55 p.m. December 15, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
U.S. intelligence agencies are working to track down an alarming report from inside North Korea revealing that the communist regime is secretly developing underwater nuclear torpedoes and mines. Published 6:30 p.m. December 8, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring: Counterspies hunt Russian mole inside National Security Agency
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
The National Security Agency (NSA) is conducting a counterintelligence probe at its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters in a top-secret hunt for a Russian agent, according to a former intelligence official close to the agency. Published 6:46 p.m. December 1, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Recent disclosures that North Korea is building a light-water reactor and centrifuge facility to produce uranium fuel for bombs has confirmed what critics say are significant failures of U.S. intelligence and diplomacy since 2002 to identify and halt Pyongyang's nuclear program. Published 7:22 p.m. November 24, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is offering qualified support for the New START arms treaty in an effort to counter critics who say the treaty will restrict one of the Pentagon's most promising new strategic weapons: Long-range missiles topped with conventional warheads that can hit targets anywhere on Earth in 60 minutes or less. Published 6:45 p.m. November 17, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
The Pentagon's intelligence directorate is killing off one of its most strategically important mission areas: monitoring efforts by foreign governments to buy U.S. firms and technology, such as the multiple efforts by China's military-linked equipment company Huawei Technologies to buy into the U.S. high-technology sector. Published 8:28 p.m. November 10, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
White House political advisers canceled President Obama's planned visit to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, amid concerns that his wearing an orange scarf there would fuel misperceptions that he is a Muslim. Published 7:51 p.m. November 3, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Behind the scenes within the Obama administration a vigorous debate took place over the president's upcoming visit to India. Published 8:20 p.m. October 27, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
With President Obama set for a major trip to Asia next month and the Obama administration nearing the halfway point of its first term, U.S. officials tell Inside the Ring that a heated policy debate is under way over how to deal with China. Published 6:31 p.m. October 20, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
The diplomatic dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands has died down, but the incident involving a detained fishing boat captain has raised new fears within the U.S. government over China's use of economic warfare, namely, its control over exports of rare-earth minerals needed for high-technology manufacturing. Published 4:24 p.m. October 13, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
China recently conducted a long-range missile flight test that remains shrouded in secrecy. A U.S. official confirmed that China's military fired a missile from the Taiyuan missile center, about 320 miles southwest of Beijing, to Korla, a city in western China some 1,800 miles away. The Sept. 25 test highlights what China military specialists say is the growing threat posed by Beijing's development of long- and short-range ballistic and cruise missiles, and its new missile defense interceptors. Published 8:20 p.m. October 6, 2010 - Comments
Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Tensions between China and Japan continue to rise even though Japan on Saturday released a Chinese fishing boat captain who was held for ramming his vessel into two Japanese coast guard ships near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Published 6:38 p.m. September 29, 2010 - Comments
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Transportation Safety Administration chief John Pistole said Thursday the agency is looking at new technology such as scanner images that show passengers as "stick figures" and security methods used in Israeli airports as part of his pledge to make air travel "as minimally invasive as possible." Published 10:13 a.m. January 13, 2011
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