US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has warned of China posing an “imminent” threat to Taiwan, while urging Asian countries to boost defence spending and work with the US to deter war.
While the US does not “seek to dominate or strangle China”, it would not be pushed out of Asia nor allow its allies to be intimidated, Hegseth said while addressing a high-level Asian defence summit.
In response, China has accused the US of being the “biggest troublemaker” for regional peace.
The Trump administration’s pledge that it will begin to “aggressively” revoke visas of Chinese students was made after years of concern over the Chinese regime’s efforts to infiltrate U.S. academia.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on May 29 that the United States will begin revoking Chinese student visas, specifically targeting those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or studying in critical fields. It will also revise visa criteria and heighten scrutiny for future visa applications.
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce on Thursday said the government is enhancing scrutiny of all Chinese visa holders in the United States. She declined to detail specific criteria the department will use in assessing applications.
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he will double the tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50 per cent next Wednesday.
Trump initially announced the boosted duties on steel during a rally at U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works–Irvin Plant near Pittsburgh Friday evening. He told a cheering crowd of steelworkers that the increased levies will “further secure the steel industry in the United States.”
… Canada is the largest steel supplier to the United States, accounting for nearly 25 per cent of all imports in 2023. About a quarter of all steel used in America is imported.
TRUMP PROTECTS AMERICAN STEEL
"We are going to be imposing a 25% increase. We're going to bring it from 25% to 50%—the tariffs on steel into the United States of America—which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States." –President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/ASaAjXxLDE
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 30, 2025
Visiting a grocery store these days can feel like walking into a Canada Day parade. With shelves draped in maple leaf imagery and displays featuring provincial flags, grocers have leaned into nationalism as a marketing strategy.
From a public sentiment perspective, it’s been fascinating. But from an economic standpoint, the real question is: Has it worked?
Prime Minister Carney has deep ties to Europe and friends in high places.
Europe has serious problems that it acknowledges but fails to address.
Ergo, Mark Carney risks going down in history as Canada’s most disastrous prime minister.
With the Trump administration back in the White House, America has an opportunity to restore commonsense energy and manufacturing policies after years of radical environmental overreach. One of the most glaring examples of this overreach is the electric vehicle (EV) push — a movement championed by progressive elites that, under the guise of sustainability, threatens to undermine national security, weaken domestic industry, and entangle our economy further with the Chinese Communist Party.
The Rainbow Bridge, which crosses the Niagara River between the United States and Canada, has for decades been a symbol of peace connecting two countries.
But for Araceli, a Salvadorian migrant, and her family, the bridge represented a seemingly insurmountable hurdle.
Along with her partner and two daughters, aged four and 14, the family first attempted to cross the bridge on 17 March.
OTTAWA — A “secret” memo from the Department of National Defence last year said Canada’s 2005 decision not to join the U.S. ballistic missile defence system harmed the country’s reputation as a security partner and could make it harder to participate in the AUKUS military collaboration between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The memo also raised Canada’s long-standing failure to meet its defence spending commitments with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as “the elephant in the room” that has raised doubts about whether Canada is willing to pull its weight for international security.
“[US] colleges and universities have accepted $6.25 billion from Qatar since 2001. However, Qatar’s total spending likely exceeds that figure… Qatar is a major exporter of Islamist ideology, which it amplifies on the Qatar-owned Al Jazeera network. By pumping money into the American higher education system and across the United States, Qatar avoids scrutiny as it advances hostile ideologies.” — Natalie Ecanow, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, in testimony to the Texas Legislature House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans’ Affairs, April 2, 2025.
The U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled to allow the Trump administration to move forward with revoking the protected status of over 500,000 illegal aliens.
The ruling, according to Fox News, was issued Friday, and rightly upholds — for now — the executive branch’s ability to revoke unconstitutional protected status for illegal aliens. Radical Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor reportedly dissented.
Canada’s boycott of all things American has caused the US measurable pain. Airline bookings from Canada to its southern neighbor have dipped significantly from last year, and the Federal Reserve’s latest snapshot of the US economy noted widespread declines in Canadian spending.
But few places in the US are hurting more than the border towns of Washington state, where local economies are almost entirely dependent on the other side. “We do not survive without Canada. We just don’t,” Ali Hayton, owner of the main grocery store in Point Roberts, Washington, said at a roundtable meeting about the crisis on April 24.
Xiao Chen turned up at the US Consulate in Shanghai on Thursday morning, hours after Washington announced that it would “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students.
The 22-year-old had a visa appointment: she was headed to Michigan in the autumn to study communications.
After a “pleasant” conversation, she was told her application had been rejected. She was not given a reason.
She doesn’t have to be given a reason she is foreign national from a hostile nation.
Why is sovereign nation status only allowed when it advances a left wing agenda?
Laura Loomer called for the deportation of Xi Jinping’s daughter, Xi Mingze, who attended Harvard and lives in Massachusetts.
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That’s CBC reporter Andrew Chang’s assessment of Trump’s “bully strategy” to gain economic advantages using tariffs.
Through contiguous episodes of a streaming program Chang hosts called About That, the CBC has launched a veritable propaganda war against the US government, coated in a veneer of experts and tricked out with a speckling of science.
Why did the government and mainstream media collude to discredit alternative, successful COVID treatments?
The COVID pandemic was and remains one of the largest involuntary wealth transfers in history. Which is why, in trying to get to the bottom of what was done in the name of saving us from the ravages of the virus, it is best to “follow the money.” For in the law, as in life, the money trail will inevitably lead to the truth.
Recall that as the COVID virus spread throughout our panicked nation, our government and its associated medical authorities instructed us to shelter in place.
A federal appeals court put the brakes Thursday on a lower court order that overturned most of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
A full 11-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit stayed the order by the Manhattan-based Court of International Trade while a White House appeal is heard.
The Court of International Trade had ruled that Trump exceeded his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by imposing a 10% flat duty rate on dozens of countries around the world — as well as 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 20% tariffs on China in response to illegal fentanyl trafficking.
