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The top U.S. general and a senior Chinese counterpart spoke on Tuesday, the U.S. military said, a day after China banned U.S. military ships and aircraft from visiting Hong Kong.

Sebastien Roblin History, Asia Sometimes, things don't go according to plan. Key Point: For three hours the Porter’s crew attempted to save the listing destroyer (photo here) before the order to abandon ship was given. Patriotic action movies would have you believe military units regularly perform like well-oiled fighting machines. But sometimes reality is closer to Bill Murray’s Stripes. Such at least was the case of the William D. Porter, whose mishaps were famously immortalized in an...

James Holmes Security, A new report says what we've all been worrying. Key Point: Combating Chinese missile strenth will entail working closely with Asian allies to rethink U.S. strategy in the Pacific. Last week the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Center (USSC) set policy circles aflutter when it issued a novella-length report that questions the staying power of U.S. military strategy in the Indo-Pacific theater while urging inhabitants of the region to take up their share of...

Michael Peck Security, Is that accurate? Key Point: The facts don't support Iran's narrative. Did you know that Iran’s navy has always defeated the United States? Did you know that Iran’s army is so invincible that no country can win a ground war against it? Welcome to the megalomaniacal world of Iranian media, where the impossible is still impossible —but makes for great propaganda. “Americans have always been the ultimate and full-scale losers in all their encounters with the IRGCN [Islamic...

China's communist regime claimed on Monday that the resounding defeat of pro-communist candidates in Hong Kong's District Council elections Sunday occurred because of American and Western foreign interference, not popular disgust with Beijing.

Nearly two-thirds of people who had abortions in the U.S. already had at least one child, according to the study.