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  • Inside the Ring: Beijing coup rumors

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring China's Internet say that from March 14 to Wednesday bloggers circulated alarming reports of tanks entering Beijing and shots being fired in the city as part of what is said to have been a high-level political battle among party leaders - and even a possible military coup.

  • Inside the Ring: Space tech to China

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    A senior Pentagon official told Congress last week that the U.S. government is concerned about the leakage of embargoed U.S. space technology to China.

  • Inside the Ring: North Korea's ICBM

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    Recent congressional testimony confirmed North Korea's development of a new long-range, road-mobile missile that can reach American shores, increasing the threat of a nuclear attack on the United States.

  • Inside the Ring: State blocks grant to Russia

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The State Department recently denied $2 million in grants to a Russian research institute over concerns the money would be used to boost Moscow's advanced nuclear missile work.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    Chinese cyberattacks and electronic intrusions into U.S. computer networks in peacetime are part of the preparations for a future high-technology war against the United States, according to the U.S. Pacific Command's new commander.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The Pentagon's plan to shift the focus of U.S. military forces to Asia after disengagement in Iraq and Afghanistan got mixed support in the defense budget request released this week.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The Pentagon's senior weapons-buying official said this week that a program for purchasing offensive and defensive military equipment for cyberwarfare is still being worked on.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    U.S. intelligence agencies threw cold water on the President Obama's thus-far-unsuccessful effort to "reset" relations with Russia by making concessions to Moscow.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    CIA Director David H. Petraeus recently replaced the agency's director of support, a senior manager who also runs the agency's massive worldwide logistics, including the security office.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    A senior House Republican is questioning the Obama administration's plan to seek an arms agreement for space based on concerns that the pact could restrict U.S. military and intelligence operations.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The Pentagon is investigating the joint avionics venture between General Electric and a Chinese company that was linked in the past to U.S. arms proliferation sanctions.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Thursday will put the official Pentagon stamp on a new U.S. strategy toward Asia — to solidify efforts to refocus on countering China's growing arsenal of missiles, submarines, cyberweapons and other forces designed to push U.S. forces out of the region.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    U.S. intelligence agencies are busy assessing the new power structure emerging in North Korea as Kim Jong-un, son of the late Kim Jong-il, takes over.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman is working on a major Obama administration initiative that would renew scientist exchanges between U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and Chinese nuclear facilities.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    At the recent U.S.-Chinese defense talks in Beijing, the subject of the Pentagon's new Air Sea Battle Concept, a program to counter China's growing anti-access and area denial weapons, was not discussed.

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