Chinese Influence Group Shuts Down After Report on Cindy Yang’s Ties
Mother Jones illustration/Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Florida chapter of the Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (CPPRC), part of a network of groups linked to China’s Community Party and seen as vehicles for projecting Chinese influence in the West, abruptly dissolved last week…
Head of Asian GOP Group Says He “Wouldn’t Rule Out” Illegal Foreign Donations to Trump
Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser at Cipriani in New York, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017.Susan Walsh/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The head of a national organization of Asian American Republicans said he can’t “rule out” the possibility that Chinese citizens illegally used American straw donors to funnel cash…
White House: Trump “Doesn’t Know” the Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Him
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After four days of silence, the White House has finally addressed questions about Cindy Yang, the massage parlor owner who sold Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago. “The President doesn’t know this woman,” Judd Deere, a White House…
Trump’s Decision to Nuke a Key US-Russia Treaty Fuels a Simmering Global Arms Race
President Donald Trump speaks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin during their July summit in Helsinki.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On December 8, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood beside Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the East Room of the White House and signed one of the most consequential…
Could the Trade War Truce With China Help Stem the Opioid Crisis?
President Donald Trump with China’s President Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting at the G-20 Summit on SaturdayAP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Meeting with President Donald Trump at the G-20 summit on Saturday in Buenos Aires, President Xi Jinping of China agreed to classify the powerful opioid…
Trump’s Trade War Is Hurting Red-State Farmers—and Ripping Their GOP Senators Apart
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa), left, is clashing with Trump over trade policy.Bill Clark/ ZUMA, Evan Golub/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Having yet again teed up a multi-front trade war with the United States’ biggest agricultural trading partners—Mexico, China, Canada, and the European Union—President Donald Trump’s agricultural policy team is talking tough.…